Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him .
2 He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care .
3 Marshall 's defeat will not affect Barrington 's judgment of him .
4 He knew how banal the question was as soon as he had asked it , but it did not affect Surere 's mood .
5 These claims did not affect CSM 's duty to recommend the granting of a licence anyway , as long as it considered the drug safe and effective .
6 When Harold Wilson succeeded Hugh Gaitskell as party leader in 1963 , he swore he would not make Gaitskell 's mistake of surrounding himself with elite coteries of policy advisers .
7 All the same , Lorraine McAslan on Collins Classics takes us deeper inside the music , while Nigel Clayton does not make Lonquich 's mistake of crossing the border between passion and brutality .
8 This announced , quietly but determinedly , that Balfour did not want Asquith 's backing for the Admiralty :
9 And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping .
10 ‘ I did not want you here and I certainly do not want Ana 's life complicated further . ’
11 Even so , he would not disregard Dublin 's input — ‘ everyone listens , I listen , but the Government should not delay progress in any area where it is possible .
12 If the Empire State Building of English football , the FA Premier League , can not recognise Mike 's ability in management , then what hope has my talent , three blocks away on the taxi rank , where the Multivite/Singletons Division Three languishes .
13 Portugal , which does not recognise Indonesia 's annexation of its former colony , said Mr Gusmao 's trial was a travesty .
14 The monoclonal antibody that did not cross react with these non-toxic cereals , did not recognise Frazer 's fraction III , a peptic-tryptic digest of wheat gluten which is known to be toxic .
15 With ‘ Rosy ’ being out-of-contract , clubs do not need Liverpool 's permission to negotiate any deal , and the Israeli striker will study all offers before deciding his future .
16 Ipswich were neat and tidy but did not trouble Arsenal 's goalkeeper David Seaman until the closing seconds of the half when Steve Palmer 's shot from 20 yards following a corner flashed just wide .
17 He was on sufficiently good terms with the prince 's chamberlain , Sir Thomas Vaughan , for Vaughan to lend him his London house in the 1470s , and although this relationship did not survive Richard 's usurpation , other servants of the prince transferred to Richard 's household after his accession .
18 He was on sufficiently good terms with the prince 's chamberlain , Sir Thomas Vaughan , for Vaughan to lend him his London house in the 1470s , and although this relationship did not survive Richard 's usurpation , other servants of the prince transferred to Richard 's household after his accession .
19 Mr Knapp said trainmakers Brel , anxiously waiting for an order for 188 new Networker trains , could not survive BR 's privatisation when investment in new stock would be cut back to a minimum .
20 The fact that the Erne outfit could only draw with Armagh on Sunday last despite having home advantage does not lessen McCabe 's optimism as he anticipates this week-end 's replay at the Athletic Grounds .
21 The data does not include Britain 's trade with EC countries which accounts for half of total business .
22 Christ 's feet in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service , are ‘ unoffending ’ which may mean without sin , but might also mean just harmless or inoffensive , devoid of power in a way paralleling Origen 's sexual impotence ; the apparent presence of God need not guarantee Christ 's power .
23 BAFFLED police fear they may not catch Rachel 's killer before he strikes again .
24 This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback , but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope 's taste .
25 That did not suit Bonaparte 's desire for order and was inconvenient to his need for conscripting recruits to his army .
26 He did not know Dinah 's handwriting ; there was so much he did not know about her , he told himself , tearing the envelope open urgently .
27 , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre .
28 We do not know Selkirk 's secret , even though we hold it in our hands .
29 Fourthly , one could not describe James 's home life as entirely perfect background for a racing championship .
30 The rejection of " a specific centre of decision-making outside the republic " and of the principles of " democratic centralism " meant , he said , that the LCS — Party of Democratic Renewal would " affirm even more consistently the interests of the Slovene people and of all the citizens of Slovenia " , but would not seek Slovenia 's secession from Yugoslavia .
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