Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 2 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 3 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 4 | Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him . |
| 5 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , I can understand you not wanting to go into a hostel , but from what you 're saying , a flat 's the sort of thing you want , is n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | Why could n't this woman simply accept it as a fact of life , part of her make-up , such as not wanting to live in the country or swim in the sea . |
| 8 | not wanting to sit in the conservatory |
| 9 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 10 | He had kept away from the house , not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards ' private grief . |
| 11 | I muttered something about not wanting to trample over the very different memories they must all have of Conor , talked a little about the family 's surprise at finding that their son had such an extensive social and business life . |
| 12 | I 'm not looking to work at the CFTC issue within the AFBD . |
| 13 | Because it would be bad news for the country if we are witnessing another fight between the private sector and the state and I hope that we 're not going to see in the whole rules and regulation industry , versus er the public a sort of repeat of the Moriarty , Sherlock Holmes final fight er with never knowing who in fact er wins as the battle of o of continues . |
| 14 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 15 | ( ‘ We are not going to go to the wall for Escort and Parade ’ , an ‘ associate ’ of Roy Hattersley told The Observer , 6th May 1990 . ) |
| 16 | I actually got the impression that erm I mean I 'm not going to go over the , the points that |
| 17 | Now , I 'm not going to go into a discussion about Dickens ' view of women , which was fairly peculiar , but I do think that the popular feeling of the times was very much inclined towards the ‘ Little Dorrits ’ . |
| 18 | And look at us now would youse — look at this place now — Sean and Michael live like kings — whatever they might say — and I 'm not going to go into the whys and wherefores here . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not going to go into the dream thing with Cal , or say anything about Vern 's dad . |
| 20 | This is not a book about dieting , so I am not going to go into the subject in great depth . |
| 21 | I 'm not going to go through the erm , passage at the bottom , but I 'd like you to have a go at it and will go over it on Friday . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're not going to go along the track looking for a rope until both the Canadian and the freight train have been through . |
| 23 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 24 | As for the hoped-for recasting of the ‘ community charge ’ , nothing short of transferring education to central government — which is simply not going to happen before the next election — can reduce it to a politically painless level . |
| 25 | Here was I , not going to talk about the Pope 's ‘ Lamentabili ’ and have n't I spent ten minutes on it already . |
| 26 | Washington had first seen the attractions of open land when working as a surveyor along a line running north-west to the Ohio valley and Lake Erie , and he could reckon that his survey was not going to remain as a simple tribute to the government 's desire for information . |
| 27 | ‘ And she likes the house to stay just the same , ’ she remarked to Fru Gertlinger , as she swept back through the green-baize door for yet more toast , ‘ so she 's not going to object to the blue room being returned to its former colours . |
| 28 | Obviously I do n't want a wife of Peter 's around the place if she 's not going to behave in a civil manner to me . ’ |
| 29 | I think we also need to recognise that there has also been a er , high level of er , commitment from er , officers employed by this council to achieving the changes that we have asked in terms of financial management , now I 'm not going to pretend for a moment that er , we 've gone all the way there yet . |
| 30 | But I was not going to submit to the suffering of being preserved in a past that was not my own . |