Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 2 | We did not reckon on greedy Labour authorities utilising the change to conceal vast increases in public expenditure that they forced on to thousands of unsuspecting electors in our communities , to try to persuade them to change their allegiance from the Conservative party to Labour . |
| 3 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 4 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 5 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 6 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 7 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 8 | The foot soldiers , however , did not benefit from looted oriental mail , or from the Western revolution in home manufacture . |
| 9 | Into the power-vacuum created by the slaying of Osric and Eanfrith stepped Eanfrith 's brother , Oswald , who slew Cadwallon in the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ near Hexham in the autumn of either 634 ( if Eadwine was killed in 633 ) or 635 ( if Eadwine did not perish until 634 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) , and assumed the kingship of both the Deirans and the Bernicians ( HE 111 , 1 , 2 ) . |
| 10 | There was a moment , God 's truth , she would not forget it , when the man with the gun seemed to smile at her , God 's truth and she did not trifle with that . |
| 11 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 12 | Though he denounced the American-led initiative to establish protected enclaves in the north as an infringement of Iraq 's sovereignty , he did not intervene as western soldiers got on with what is indeed a mighty infringement . |
| 13 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 14 | This , Jaq did not care for one little bit . |
| 15 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 16 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 17 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 18 | But Boyd did not care about new hats or new frocks . |
| 19 | Over half did not go beyond 10 miles , and more than half of the remainder stayed within 20 . |
| 20 | The Greeks did not go beyond that minimum of attention which their position demanded . |
| 21 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 22 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 23 | ‘ We did not go into that lightly , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 24 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 25 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 26 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but obviously I am interested in signing him . |
| 27 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but I am interested in signing him . ’ |
| 28 | He did not go into further detail about the morality or legality of nuclear use or nuclear deterrence , partly no doubt because he favoured an effective world-wide prohibition on nuclear weapons production ( Spaight , 1947 , p. 218 ) and therefore hoped that such issues would not arise . |
| 29 | So Edward , almost alone among his fellow unfortunates who sailed that particular August , did not go to one of the great English educational establishments , but to a small academy near Dumfries . |
| 30 | He then reminisced about a house-party at which someone had suggested that Mr Eliot ( who did not go to many such parties ) should be invited to read some of his poems . |