Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the judge said that even though the man promised not to do it again , he found such behaviour extremely offensive and ordered him to give £50 to each of the women . |
| 2 | ‘ She pretended not to see me though , not that I care of course . ’ |
| 3 | I got a caution , and told not to do it again . |
| 4 | North told his colleagues that the release of the hostages was a personal obligation on himself , and that seemed not to put it too strongly . |
| 5 | I decided not to mention them just in case . |
| 6 | Oh , they decided not to give us quite so much work ? |
| 7 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 8 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 9 | Godolphin would need Dowd to help him calm these suspicions , and a man who needed his dog knew not to kick it too hard . |
| 10 | President Bush , declining to confirm the report , chose not to deny it either . |
| 11 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 12 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 14 | He did not want her here . |
| 15 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 16 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
| 17 | She would accept no other visitors and yet , he sensed , she did not want him near . |
| 18 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 19 | as if she too did not want him there , not then , not at that moment |
| 20 | She did not want him now . |
| 21 | She did not want him anywhere near it . |
| 22 | It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did not want you here and I certainly do not want Ana 's life complicated further . ’ |
| 24 | She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes . |
| 25 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 26 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 27 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 28 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 29 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 30 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |