Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything they did not eat went to waste : nothing was recycled or left for the servants , though Nicolae 's beloved dogs got scraps , if they tired of their imported frozen meat . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll not make do with de Guichet , ’ said Owen . |
| 3 | All she knew was that , unlike Cinderella , she did not want to go to Roman 's ball … |
| 4 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |
| 7 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 8 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 9 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see why you might not want to go near Bad Schwarzendorn . |
| 11 | America will win , it is thought , and win handily enough that it will not want to withdraw from Asia : so China , Japan , whoever , should pursue its own interests and wait for things to return to normal . |
| 12 | Wendy and I had decided that we did not want to remain in Wolverton , if we could go to one of the more interesting towns nearby . |
| 13 | These people do not want to remain in Bosnia-Hercegovina , they wish to join Croatia , a dream they share with the Croat president Franjo Tudjman . |
| 14 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 15 | Whilst I do not want to argue with Freidson and others that autonomy is an important ground , claimed by and often fought over , by the collectivity itself , I believe that in state financed health services there are similarly important limitations on that autonomy . |
| 16 | The traffic implications of what is proposed are enormous , and I hope that British Rail and the Government will take cognisance of the fact that we do not want to create around King 's Cross a traffic jam far worse than anything that we have to put up with at present . |
| 17 | I do not want to detract from Lincoln 's performance in any way ; he is a very talented athlete , but somehow that talent seems to have gone to waste . |
| 18 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 19 | He does not want to die in Miami . |
| 20 | But with the confidence of youth she does not want to wait beyond Barcelona for her first Games medal . |
| 21 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 22 | But the lawyer did not want to talk about Doctor Lanyon . |
| 23 | I am not convinced that this issue should be on the political agenda at all , not at this time , not at any time , in fact I am pretty convinced that this is a Tory agenda , a media agenda , why they do they not want to talk about crooks and spivs that support them , that donate thousands of pounds into their coffers ? |
| 24 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 25 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's very pleasant , ’ she said , but somehow she did not want to talk about John . |
| 27 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 28 | Strange that Lucinda should not want to stay in London . |
| 29 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 30 | 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 . |