Example sentences of "not [verb] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first we considered moving to Devon , which we had come to know during speaking engagements for Mark Bonham-Carter at Torrington and Jeremy Thorpe at Barnstaple , but not seeing anything to our liking , turned our thoughts to our native Scotland . |
| 2 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 3 | And they used to , not make anything , but they used to do the labouring , movement of work and all like that . |
| 4 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 5 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 6 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 7 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 8 | Vera did not eat anything while we talked but sipped at some of her excellent black coffee and smoked endless cigarettes . |
| 9 | We would not eat anything . |
| 10 | Do not eat anything else between meals . |
| 11 | Do not eat anything at least two hours before going to bed . |
| 12 | Florrie did not eat anything herself — a cup of tea was all the breakfast she ever wanted — and as soon as she had finished , she put on her coat and hat and left the house . |
| 13 | She was very hot and would not eat anything , and Mrs Viney told her to send for Dr Forrest . |
| 14 | How : ‘ One woman went to prison and she would not eat anything so , to open her mouth , they broke her teeth and put something down her throat . ’ |
| 15 | But his head ached and at dinner he could not eat anything . |
| 16 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
| 17 | I left knowing that we could not make anything together . |
| 18 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 20 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 21 | Eventually I convinced him that I did not want anything . |
| 22 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 23 | Elizabeth answered that she particularly did not want anything to remain that might hurt any living person among her friends — and so with one blow.she destroyed the ‘ flat ’ characters , who could have given her a second literary fame . |
| 24 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 25 | He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched . |
| 26 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 27 | He did not want anything to go wrong . |
| 28 | I still imagined returning to work at WTN in London , picking up with Jill as though all these years had not altered anything . |
| 29 | DO NOT THROW ANYTHING OUT OF THE WINDOWS — I know a true story about this . |
| 30 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |