Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 2 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 3 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 4 | This can be seen in : ( 211 ) Have I not bidden you never to look upon the face of woman ? |
| 5 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 6 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 7 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 8 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 9 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 10 | It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function . |
| 11 | You need not hurry them away to lie in your sewing-basket or run upstairs to fold them under your handkerchiefs . |
| 12 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 13 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 14 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 15 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 16 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 17 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 18 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 19 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 20 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 21 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 22 | Brancazio suggests that sensors in the inner ear may be providing the information that sends a fielder to the right spot , not doing it well to begin with , but improving with experience . |
| 23 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 24 | ‘ I did not call you here to discuss the offices . ’ |
| 25 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 26 | Shamlou hissed : ‘ I will not tell you again to keep quiet . |
| 27 | He had put in an appearance , perforce , at the ceremony at the Tower , to appoint his proctors , but returned to Chester as soon as he decently could , and had not left it again to come to the council at his own manor of Kennington , sending only one of his esquires with a report on the situation — admittedly an admirably full and expert report — to lay before the assembly . |
| 28 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 29 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 30 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |