Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [indef pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
2 | They belong to owners who believe they have passed the point of no return or who simply do not want anyone else living on their land . |
3 | I will not expect anyone else to make me happy but will find it within me . |
4 | Benny could not see anything so pulled on the doctor 's coat . |
5 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
6 | If you do not have one already get yourself a diary which is small enough to carry with you . |
7 | I 'll not get anything else done out the back . |
8 | Once you have accepted responsibility do not allow someone else to take it away from you as that will be clear proof of your inability to handle the situation . |
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10 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
11 | Dr Kevorkian had said that he would not help anyone else to die until after the judge 's ruling — but that if the law were upheld , he would still continue . |
12 | Gover prefers it that way : he could not imagine anyone else running the place . |
13 | It seems they could not find anyone else to answer the call , so they came to us . ’ |
14 | Well you did n't eat anything yesterday did you , except half a hot cross bun which is a funny thing to eat , but never mind ! |
15 | If you do n't know what you want to communicate you ca n't make anyone else understand . |
16 | Because you do n't want anyone else to intercept the letter and steam it open , you put Sellotape over the envelope flap . |
17 | ‘ It seemed as though they did n't want anyone else to intrude . ’ |
18 | She says I would n't want anyone else to go through this . |
19 | He brought it out rather shyly , as though he did n't want anyone else to see it . |
20 | Something he does n't want anyone else to suffer . |
21 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
22 | There were those who wanted to escape and thought that everyone else ought to want to , and there were those who did n't want to escape and who did n't want anyone else to want to either . |
23 | I just do n't want anyone else to get their fingers burnt over this , ’ she said . |
24 | I do n't want anybody here to go crazy . ’ |
25 | They are nobody else 's and no-one else will see them , if you do n't want anybody else to see them . |
26 | Never liked to mention him and I do n't think anyone else does either . |
27 | ’ I do n't think anyone just starts stealing , it 's something you work your way up to . |
28 | I 'm , I 'm interested , I do n't think anyone here has suggested the , the draconian measures which you stand |
29 | Vicki Burwell of Thomas Cook said : ‘ I do n't think anyone seriously believes that these flights will happen in our lifetime , yet people are so interested that they 're putting their names down , just in case . ’ |
30 | I do n't think anyone ever wants the receipts . |