Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she knew was that , unlike Cinderella , she did not want to go to Roman 's ball … |
| 2 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 3 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 4 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |
| 5 | Is it too fanciful to suggest that once schools know why pupils do not want to come to classes , teachers can set about making school more attractive for at least some of the disaffected ? |
| 6 | Is that why you were thinking some people might not want to belong to groups cos they always see er the group as detracting from their ego ? |
| 7 | Louise lost no time in telling Constance that she did not need to return to Northumberland . |
| 8 | Resorts : French speaking Verbier can lay a justifiable claim to be the best skiing in Europe — and to attract the most gung-ho British visitors ; all addicts must visit Zermatt , Grindelwald /Wengen/Murren and Davos/Klosters at one time or another ; Andermatt is an off-piste paradise ; Engelberg is recommended for intermediates , as is Champery , a pretty village with good access to the huge Portes du Soleil circuit : beginners do not need to go to Switzerland , but Saas Fee is a good place to learn if you must . |
| 9 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 10 | He did not need to turn to Posidonius for his cheap ethnography — assuming , what is by no means certain , that about 69 B.C. Posidonius ' history had already been published . |
| 11 | In 1623 his friend in Florence , Maffeo Barberini , was elected Pope and Galileo could not wait to get to Rome to see him , and the reception was cordial . |
| 12 | It did not appear to occur to Arghatun that they might not be able to ride . |
| 13 | You may not choose to react to situations which damage your self-esteem in the same way as Jane . |
| 14 | But the policeman knew that people who break windows do not stop to talk to policemen . |
| 15 | One does not have to resort to occultism to find dark forces . |
| 16 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 17 | The existence of the network ensures that searchers do not have to go to London to obtain this information . |
| 18 | I woke up and grinned , remembering that it was the half term holiday and I did not have to go to school . |
| 19 | I would n't get dressed until the last minute because I thought I would be late and therefore would not have to go to school . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not have to go to Africa . ’ |
| 21 | It is just that community workers get paid and do not have to go to gaol ( Alex Robson of the 1930s NUWM in North Shields commenting on the work of CDP in the mid-1970s ) . |
| 22 | Soon we will not have to go to ballet or piano or junior aerobics . |
| 23 | It would , she felt , atone for the things she had said and mean that she did not have to talk to Julia about them . |
| 24 | I do not have to speak to people on my side of the political and philosophical fence to understand what a minimum wage policy would cost ; I need only listen to Gavin Laird of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and read in the Library the works of the Fabian Society and , on Sundays , The People . |
| 25 | The Jews had to accept the fact that Gentiles could become Christians and that in so doing they did not have to come to Christ via Jewish cultural conditioning . |
| 26 | People in the regions should not have to travel to London in order to fly to the United States . |
| 27 | And he did not wish to go to Paraguay . |
| 28 | The appellant did not wish to return to South Africa . |
| 29 | Before attempting to set out an approach to disruptive pupils , I believe it is important to preface the debate with a general comment on education — first , because the nature of the topic can generate emotions that lead to a distortion of the author 's overall perspective , and second , while I am critical of many educational responses to disruptive pupils I do not wish to add to teachers ' feelings of being under siege . |
| 30 | Ruth did not attempt to speak to Rachaela . |