Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 2 | It is understood , in any case , that Keegan would not want to work at St James 's Park with Sir John holding control in the boardroom . |
| 3 | She did not want to look at Alice . |
| 4 | She focused all her concentration on getting it right , not daring to look at Nathan , or even to think about what would happen next . |
| 5 | Nutty waited with bated breath , not daring to look at Nails , trying to look bored and world-weary . |
| 6 | ‘ I can spare a few days , ’ Jenna assured her , not daring to look at Alain . |
| 7 | Feeling desolate , she climbed back into the car , not daring to look at Roman in the silver moonlight . |
| 8 | The normal working was not booked to stop at Chester but the second part , inserted at very short notice , was scheduled to change locomotives there . |
| 9 | Helen pulled on her jacket and walked quickly towards the door , not wanting to look at Mike . |
| 10 | On his journey back to Paisley , Drummond did not neglect to stop at Boquhan and call upon Mrs. Mary Campbell , who in turn advised her cousin Lord Milton that Drummond ‘ said he wou 'd a road a hunder miles to serve our intrest & while he lives you may command him in any manner in his power ’ . |
| 11 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 12 | Concentrate on the details of a single system ; do not expect to arrive at generalizations by picking up ethnographic snippets from here , there and everywhere . |
| 13 | Derain , although as early as 1904 he had executed a still life in which he seized in a more or less superficial way on some of the aspects of Cézanne 's art which were later to fascinate and influence the Cubists , did not begin to look at Cézanne really seriously until 1906 . |
| 14 | Managers who do not work as a team and provide support for each other and their staff can not hope to succeed at times of staff shortage . |
| 15 | It is quicker too , as I can knit the 60 rows in one go and do not have to stop at row 30 . |
| 16 | He did not wish to look at Mowbray 's face . |
| 17 | If they use this formula and then get a report they do not like and on which they do not intend to rely at trial , then they are not committed to disclose it . |
| 18 | I do not intend to rehearse at length — the opportunity for that will come tomorrow — the powerful arguments , financial and practical , which would support the abolition of this rule at the earliest possible date . |
| 19 | Half of them live at Stantonbury , 437 between two and three miles distant , the remainder three to six miles away , mostly on farms and in villages with relatives or connections , and they would not come to live at Wolverton even if cottages were provided for them . |
| 20 | • If you can not get to sleep at night , stay in bed and rest . |
| 21 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
| 22 | Adequate resources must be provided by central government , but much of the cost could be met from accumulated capital receipts , which councils are not allowed to spend at present ! |
| 23 | In the holidays I was not allowed to watch at home either . ’ |
| 24 | Melanie kept her eyes on the witch-ball so as not to have to look at Uncle Philip . |
| 25 | The girl said she still thinks fondly of her time in England — but could not bear to stay at University College any longer . |
| 26 | She could not bear to look at Lionel 's face . |
| 27 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 28 | I can see his point in a way ; he likes a full social life … and he does n't want to sit at home with a wife who is depressed and can only talk about babies . ’ |
| 29 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |
| 30 | I wanted to go to work , I I did n't want to stay at school . |