Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 2 | I would also like to know how critical the timing of the distributor pump is , as I have tried adjusting it ( by trial and error ) about a couple of degrees , with some improvement in performance , but do not want to take it too far . |
| 3 | You only saw the f oh now oh right so , hands up who saw it all the way through and would not want to see it again as part of the seminar . |
| 4 | Make sure that you are fully aware of the costs involved and the nature of the deal if you do not want to regret it later on . |
| 5 | The soil can be kept in the bag for a day or two if you do not want to use it straight away . |
| 6 | And the fact is they will not want to experience it again . |
| 7 | He did not want to win it again because even though ‘ I feel great at the moment , I do n't think it should be won more than once ; the more people who win it , the better ’ . |
| 8 | Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions . |
| 9 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
| 10 | Mr Brown did not like to show it either . |
| 11 | To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway . |
| 12 | It will be an unusually dishonest catalogue that does not have to mention it somewhere . |
| 13 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 14 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 15 | Afterwards Leith could not help wondering if perhaps , with more experience of men , she might not have handled it better . |
| 16 | Most of the minority who were suddenly faced with ‘ pecuniary embarrassment ’ would have taken fright and felt a sense of failure , if not disgrace — sometimes needlessly , and for the most part would not have displayed it openly . |
| 17 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 18 | Cos you 've got to allow for like they might not have done it before . |
| 19 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 20 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 21 | She did not have to accept it as real . |
| 22 | If he had realized this , he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a " Not-hawk " - that is , anything from a wren to a pheasant — and continued on his way up the slope . |
| 23 | When users want to improve the performance of their machine , they do not have to throw it away and buy a newer model . |
| 24 | I may not have shown it too well so far … ’ |
| 25 | He said of course he did , he would not have suggested it otherwise . |
| 26 | The audience could not have told it apart from Christmas or the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley , West and Penistone ( Mr. McKay ) could not have put it better . |
| 28 | Alexander II was well advised , at the point of emancipation , to plan an elaborate security operation , but he did not have to maintain it indefinitely . |
| 29 | There was anger among them , and pity , for each in their different way had seen suffering and did not wish to see it again . |
| 30 | Do you imagine she does not wish to see it again herself ? |