Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 2 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 3 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 4 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 5 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 6 | Andy 's form is exceptional and he has waited such a long time to make the jersey his own that he will not want to miss a game . ’ |
| 7 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 8 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference . |
| 10 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 11 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 12 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 13 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 14 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 15 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 16 | She did not want to waste a moment of the time they would have . |
| 17 | She did not want to cultivate the snob image . |
| 18 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 19 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 20 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 21 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 22 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 23 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 24 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 25 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 26 | Voters do not want to see the Tories achieve their ultimate goal the destruction of the NHS , the welfare state and a return to Victorian-style society . |
| 27 | The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons . |
| 28 | We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting . |
| 29 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 30 | But he too , it seemed , did not want to spend an evening with his brother-in-law , but said less about his reasons than the voluble Edward . |