Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’
2 I do not want to enter that dispute .
3 She had not intended to go that way .
4 ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men .
5 You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam .
6 The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it .
7 Mr. Richards did not seek to support that view and it is clearly contrary to or not adopted in other writings : see , for example , Francis Mann , Foreign Affairs in English Courts ( 1986 ) ; C. Warbrick , ‘ The New British Policy on Recognition of Governments ’ ( 1981 ) 30 I.C.L.Q. 568 ; and indeed the general tenor of Professor Brownlie 's work itself .
8 Thus if a partner obtains a renewal of a lease of partnership property in his own name , he is not permitted to treat that lease as his own property to the exclusion of his co-partners while the business continues and before there has been a distribution of assets following a dissolution ( see Featherstonhaugh v Fenwick ( 1810 ) 17 Ves Jr 298 ) .
9 ‘ Peter rang me yesterday , ’ Sarella went on , not wanting to encourage that look .
10 When specifically asked if Flashman is fit to be chairman of a club in his League , he said : ‘ I 'm certainly not prepared to answer that question . ’
11 Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it .
12 Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance .
13 Isabel had not offered to refund that money .
14 Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends .
15 No wonder the party did not dare publish that document .
16 Andy does not like remembering that bit .
17 They get advice from the officers of the Local Education Authority , so there 's a number of people who are running things , if you like to put it that way , and they have to have good relationships erm and I must say that erm I have n't seen anything obstructive , particularly on our Board of Governors , from local Councillors and we 've had nothing but help from Local Education Authority officers , and I 'm glad we 're not going to lose that help .
18 The poor little thing ’ , and he would laugh , and sometimes he would skin it himself and sometimes he would throw it away , but now she says , ‘ I am not going to skin that rabbit , Hywel , so do n't imagine I am ’ , and sometimes he skins it himself and sometimes he throws it away .
19 And although you know , to all intents and purposes , those appointments are inviolate , I know that they 're in pink on the slide , but they are inviolate in terms of I 'm not going to cede that time to anyone else .
20 I hear that maybe , we 're not going to support that policy .
21 The plaintiffs had said that they were not going to perform that contract unless the defendants entered into the contract with them which was in issue .
22 I 'm not going to answer that question . ’
23 So we will need to manage the whole of that block to the right of the dotted line , and therefore I think , members will appreciate that we are not going to do that effect , or indeed do it at all , if we simply continue spending at the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds which is the costs that we 're incurring in the current year .
24 burglar alarm cost a , the whole system costs a lot of money to set up , so if you 've got in here it 's not going to put that expense to set that up .
25 Oh dear If you 're not going to eat that piece of cake Mark may as well throw it out .
26 Since a very large number of PARENTS have objected to the tests , it seems the tests are not going to achieve that aim .
27 I know in advance that we 're not going to have that kind of luck but it 's worth a try .
28 Mr Bond told the meeting : ‘ I 'm not going to discuss that sort of allegation — it 's rubbish . ’
29 We can not hope to recover that certainty about good and evil upon which in the ethical religions salvation itself depends .
30 He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement .
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