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 . |