Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 2 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 3 | Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader . |
| 4 | If you would like me to send you further copies of these agreements , please do not hesitate to let me know . |
| 5 | Others , perhaps the most doubting , may not dare to let themselves know their qualms . |
| 6 | Egyptians , wary of historical backsliding , would not like to see them reopen . |
| 7 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 8 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 9 | But Arabella Buckley , with a murderer who was not ‘ one of us ’ almost under her thumb , was not going to let him go so easily . |
| 10 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not going to let it go out , though ? ’ |
| 12 | And er then they 're not going to let anybody go there are they ? |
| 13 | I 'm not going to let you go . ’ |
| 14 | Mummy 's not going to let you fall |
| 15 | There 's no point in both of us being awake all night , it 's not going to make him get better any quicker . ’ |
| 16 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 17 | I do not wish to see it become our future . |
| 18 | Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce . |
| 19 | Showing they do not mean to let anyone sleep on the job in creating better relations , pupils of Brackenhoe School , Middlesbrough , organised a bed push for South Cleveland Hospital 's baby monitor appeal . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 21 | I did not mean to make you feel unwelcome . |
| 22 | ‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name . |
| 23 | But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table . |
| 24 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 26 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 27 | I 'm not offering to help you take your dress off . ’ |
| 28 | He could be quite casual in his attitude to his wife 's anxiety and more often than not failed to let her know when he was delayed . |
| 29 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 30 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |