Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 2 | So did the amusing little sag of her incipient double chin , the veining on her cheeks ( which , unlike Alix , she does not think to cover with Liquid Foundation ) , the slight plump soft dimpling of her upper arm , the raised veins in the backs of her hands , the broadening of her hips , the decreasing flexibility of her joints . |
| 3 | I 'm not using bugged in that er , bugging in conversations . |
| 4 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 5 | Remove handles , nameplate and door seal and carefully mask off all areas that you do not want to paint with overlapping sheets of newspaper . |
| 6 | You may not want to go to all this trouble so I 'll let you in on another easier method of finding some good swims . |
| 7 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 8 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 9 | I do not want to go into that argument ; I simply wish to illustrate my point . |
| 10 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 11 | The more experienced teacher who has used the program several times , on the other hand , will not want to go through lengthy explanations and interrogations by the program amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 12 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 13 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 14 | which you might want to incorporate anyway so you may not want to print off another version anyway |
| 15 | Is it really true that industrialists do not want to return to such a situation ? |
| 16 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 17 | Industrialists do not want to return to Labour party policies because they know full well that that would mean Front-Bench Labour Members taking decisions instead of them . |
| 18 | With the South Koreans proving to be serious challengers , the Japanese obviously do not want to contend with another team for Asian supremacy . |
| 19 | At the other extreme to the shy child is the unruly one who does not want to join in any activity , has seen every trick the magician performs and ‘ knows ’ how to do them . |
| 20 | If the fundamentalist factions drop their differences to form a coalition , they could sweep the board : a prospect dreaded by many Algerians who do not want to emerge from long years of joyless socialism only to face even more joyless Islamic militancy . |
| 21 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 22 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 23 | Er I do n't think it probably that it does decide help you decide where the location ought to be , but that having said that , I would not want to minimize in any way er the views of my authority er as to the importance erm of the look of contributions from the private sector . |
| 24 | But we do not want planning in this sense . |
| 25 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
| 26 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 27 | I did not want to think about that yet . |
| 28 | But men do not want to get into demeaning details about how they help with the housework : few admit to doing the washing up . |
| 29 | He did not want to enter into that precarious optimism . |
| 30 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |