Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 2 | He did not want to do it in front of the crowd . |
| 3 | Greeks with money do not want to put it into building factories . |
| 4 | We need land at our doorstep … if Russia does not want to give it to us , she will force us to undertake an expropriation proceeding , i.e. a war , for which we have long stored up the reasons … |
| 5 | Given SAAB 's very positive experience with line-out , it is surprising that BL did not consider emulating it in that it appeared to offer benefits both to management and workers . |
| 6 | You may not need to do it in Scotland as well to the in England . |
| 7 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 8 | They enjoy water and do not hesitate to enter it on warm days . |
| 9 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 10 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 12 | As he left , though he did not like to admit it to himself , Huy felt his sadness tempered with relief . |
| 13 | I did not plan to submit it to anyone . |
| 14 | as if its life depended on it , Digital Equipment Corp launched its first generation of 64-bit Alpha AXP machines worldwide last week , saying competitors like Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc can not hope to match it with their new 32-bit offerings — see page three . |
| 15 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 16 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 17 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 18 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 19 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 20 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 21 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 22 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 23 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 24 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 25 | Of course , Mr Nakamura could not have done it without a lot of help from his staff : two of them resigned with him and all other executives are taking a six month pay cut of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent . |
| 26 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 27 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 28 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 29 | Not doubling it , not trebling it , but to improve it by something like five or ten percent , and then the next time we go to a sales conference , you 'll be the ones winning the prizes , instead of the people who 've to be winning the prizes , because you 'll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you ? |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |