Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered who the young girl was , acting the doe for Henry 's buck , but I decided not to wait and see and promptly fled . |
| 2 | SGB management , seeking the easiest and cheapest methods , decided not to assemble or store new data but to use what was already in the payroll system and manipulate it by means of — initially — a single additional program specially written for the purpose . |
| 3 | For the first time since the civil war began in 1979 the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , the main guerrilla organization , decided not to disrupt or urge a boycott of the elections and in fact declared a three-day truce on March 9-11 . |
| 4 | He decided not to stay and find out . |
| 5 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 6 | Chissano and Dhlakama pledged ( i ) to guarantee conditions that would allow complete political freedom " in accordance with internationally recognized principles of democracy " ; ( ii ) to guarantee the personal security of all Mozambican citizens and all members of political parties ; ( iii ) to accept the role of the international community and particularly the UN in monitoring and guaranteeing the implementation of the general peace agreement , particularly the ceasefire agreement and electoral process ; ( iv ) to respect the principles contained in Protocol No. 1 [ see p. 38517 ] under the terms of which the government undertook not to adopt or apply laws which could conflict with agreements between the parties , while Renamo undertook to stop fighting and to behave as a political party ; ( v ) to respect political rights , with the government specifically committing itself to incorporating the various agreements and protocols into law [ see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ; 38804 ] ; and ( vi ) to complete an agreed agenda and sign a general peace agreement incorporating a ceasefire by Oct. 1 . |
| 7 | as if the movements of violence would eradicate a reality he preferred not to acknowledge and bring the girl back . |
| 8 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 9 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 10 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 11 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 12 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 13 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 14 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 15 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 16 | He did not excuse or condone his client 's conduct , but argued that the children had not been coerced . |
| 17 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ Home directly please , ’ to Murphy and this time he did not sigh or look pained at all , but simply said , ‘ Very good , Miss Alexandra , ’ and obeyed . |
| 19 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 20 | In Wishart 's opinion Minton , despite the gaiety he stimulated , was never happy : he did not complain or evince self-pity but he conveyed a bitter acceptance that , owing to some gross farce on the part of creation , happiness had eluded him . |
| 21 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |
| 22 | For those who did not marry or emigrate , the war might bring change of a different kind . |
| 23 | Though they were alone they did not embrace or kiss . |
| 24 | Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with . |
| 25 | Uta Maier-Maercker and Wolfgang Koch , of the Centre for Botanical Research in Munich , studied spruce trees and found that when exposed to ozone their stomata , the pores on the leaves through which water evaporates , did not open or close as efficiently as those of unexposed trees . |
| 26 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 27 | In contrast , despite its front-page headline — Sixty slaves in the kinky fiend 's harem — Daily Mirror did not identify or feature the comments of any of his previous victims . |
| 28 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 29 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 30 | The two defendents did not stand or fall together . |