Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that .
2 However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided .
3 I did not want to believe that .
4 And when their voices dropped and silenced , I put my fingers in my ears , for I did not want to hear that , either .
5 Indeed , I am sure that the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) did not mean to say that .
6 I did not mean to imply that Guitarist had somehow ‘ hoodwinked ’ the public regarding Eric Johnson 's comments on brass vs chrome jackplugs ; if you felt that , I apologise for it .
7 Mr. Richards did not seek to support that view and it is clearly contrary to or not adopted in other writings : see , for example , Francis Mann , Foreign Affairs in English Courts ( 1986 ) ; C. Warbrick , ‘ The New British Policy on Recognition of Governments ’ ( 1981 ) 30 I.C.L.Q. 568 ; and indeed the general tenor of Professor Brownlie 's work itself .
8 For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that .
9 If we go back socially to the days of the extended family , women did not have to play that role in those days , a women , a woman 's place was very much in the home , looking after the home and not much else .
10 Tina Cassan , Britain 's other qualifier for the final , did not have to make that choice , as Genesis was fractionally over the time limit and collected three-quarters of a fault .
11 Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends .
12 She did not need to have that pointed out to her .
13 He had some more coins stitched into his broad leather pouched belt as well as his own money , but he did not wish to use that .
14 No wonder the party did not dare publish that document .
15 I did not volunteer to have that perverted into a weapon that will kill or turn innocent people into mindless automata ! ’
16 The courts do not appear to consider that legal representation is an absolute requirement of the rule although there is a readiness to imply it if procedural rules are silent .
17 They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision .
18 I do not intend to follow that , because we shall have an opportunity to do so on another occasion .
19 I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline .
20 I do not want to enter that dispute .
21 We do not want to learn that .
22 We do not want to learn that ’ .
23 Then tell your subconscious that you do not wish to create that negative reality .
24 We do not wish to explain that . ’
25 To buy a brand new PA system costs a lot of money for a single person , and as a group it is a huge risk as we are still at school ( lower 6th ) and do not wish to spend that sort of money when we can not guarantee we will still be together in a week , let alone a year 's time .
26 We do not wish to revive that proposal .
27 ‘ No , we do not need to do that .
28 You do not need to know that .
29 It is also that the the maintenance of our road schedules continues to a very high standard and so we are n't er , we have to take er the money from that source er and I will be hoping that perhaps in this we may find that we do not need to raid that particular fund so that we may find
30 I do not propose to discuss that question , or , perhaps , I should not have finished this week .
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