Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you do n't resign then there 's no reason for you not to continue to act as adviser to Carlisle Flint . |
| 2 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 3 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 4 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 5 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 6 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 7 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 8 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 9 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 10 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 11 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 12 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 13 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 14 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 16 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
| 17 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 18 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 19 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |
| 21 | The truckers ' strike during July and August 1973 was also largely motivated by controls — the shortages of spare parts for their trucks , official discrimination against them in favour of state-run firms , and the fact that the charges which they could make were fixed by the government but not adjusted to take into account the rapid rate of inflation . |
| 22 | He shivered , not daring to move in case they noticed and dragged him out . |
| 23 | She sat very still , letting his words flow over her , not daring to comment in case she said something stupid and broke his mood . |
| 24 | Feeling desolate , she climbed back into the car , not daring to look at Roman in the silver moonlight . |
| 25 | The two slipped quietly over the tailboard and marched off smartly along the Commercial Road , not daring to run in case they attracted the policeman 's attention . |
| 26 | My Lords , this appeal arises out of a memorandum of agreement dated 19 December 1930 and said to have created a lease for a term which was not limited to expire by effluxion of time and can not now be determined by the landlord . |
| 27 | The assumption of those who decide where research money should go seems to be that surgeons do not need to participate in research ; they should be content to operate somewhere in the depths of the hospital and speak when spoken to . |
| 28 | They did not need to rely upon chance chemical events in the world outside to create the organic molecules from which they themselves were constructed . |
| 29 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 30 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |