Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 2 | Alyssia tried not to sound like one of those sceptics , but how she wished that she had decided to go into Nice instead and do some shopping . |
| 3 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 4 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 5 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 6 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided not to go down this road last September , as we had considerable doubts about the financial arrangements . |
| 8 | ‘ Then all your family worries descended on your lovely shoulders and I decided not to add to that burden . |
| 9 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 10 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 11 | Any male who chose not to mate with certain kinds of females would mate less than his non-discriminatory competitors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The islands ' governing Legislative Council on Oct. 26 repeated its protest to the UK government at its exclusion from the ongoing talks , and voted not to co-operate with any plan reached with Argentina until the islanders were assured of a protected 200-mile limit for their own use . |
| 14 | Since they could n't talk about that , they preferred not to talk at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 19 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | The foot soldiers , however , did not benefit from looted oriental mail , or from the Western revolution in home manufacture . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 27 | This , Jaq did not care for one little bit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 30 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |