Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend mean that British industrialists do not want to go back to national plans , solemn and binding undertakings , high inflation , nationalisation , high taxation and trade union unrest ? |
| 3 | Industrialists know that that policy was a failure , and they do not want to go back to it . |
| 4 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He does not want to hold on to it . |
| 7 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 8 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 9 | Although the majority of people would not want to revert stuffily to the strict dress code for civil servants of the 1950s , does my right hon. Friend agree that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way ? |
| 10 | It is certainly not intended to add much to the knowledge of multimedia experts . |
| 11 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 12 | Her fortitude was such that she did not need to unload on to him her emotional worries . |
| 13 | It should be made clear both that ( A + B ) does not need to add up to 100 — it is an unfortunate chance that the 80/20 or 90/10 ‘ rules ’ are so well known — and that access frequency loading will only be of benefit when A is less than B. If A were greater than B , meaning that the less active records were loaded first , file access times would be poorer than those of randomly loaded files ! |
| 14 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 15 | You name them , he 's served them , and now Richard , head waiter at Martha 's Vineyard , at the Kirklevington Country Club , Yarm , can not wait to go back to Beverly Hills and the good life . |
| 16 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 17 | Fran — who flew Laura to the States for her life-saving liver and bowel operation — could not wait to ring home to Eccles , Manchester . |
| 18 | The pope did not hesitate to point out to John the advantages of seeing Otto as emperor and to Philip Augustus , the threat that a Staufen emperor would present to France if Germany was united with Sicily . |
| 19 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 20 | I am not going to go in to all the details , but I give you one example . |
| 21 | They are not going to go back to those of the heady days of the late 1980s . ’ |
| 22 | I mean we 're not going to go back to the days of the commonwealth and relying on you know , lamb from New Zealand all the time . |
| 23 | A simple explanation to the child about how mummy is not going to give in to tempers can help the child learn more quickly . |
| 24 | Yes you can have it cos I 'm not going to get round to eating so , there 's |
| 25 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 26 | ‘ No mother can watch her child continue to be in pain — his frail body is not going to stand up to 30 general anaesthetics . |
| 27 | You mean you 're not going to show off to John ? |
| 28 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 29 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 30 | If the horse is tense ( the first stage is calmness , remember ) then everything is lost — suppleness , free forward movement and so on , until the whole issue is blown out of proportion … just for the sake of the horse not wishing to pass close to something trivial . |