Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 2 | Similarly Mr. Pope , who was looking after his wife , said he did not want her to be anywhere else but at home : |
| 3 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 4 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
| 5 | He did not kiss her , she did not want him to . |
| 6 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 7 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 8 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 9 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 10 | They were not sure Labour would win , and did not want it to . |
| 11 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
| 12 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 13 | She did not expect him to be ‘ faithful ’ , but he was . |
| 14 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |
| 15 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 16 | This suggests that the draftsman did not expect there to be controversies ; all that would happen would be the consideration of the issue by the expert and the publication of his determination . |
| 17 | In Bradshaw v Rugby Portland Cement Ltd , 1972 IRLR 8 , although the offence was of a serious nature , the tribunal recommended re-engagement because ( 1 ) the offence had nothing to do with his work , ( 2 ) he was not brought into contact with female staff , ( 3 ) the nature of the offence was unlikely to upset his relationships with his workmates — a gang of men — and ( 4 ) it did not expose anyone to ‘ moral danger ’ . |
| 18 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 19 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 20 | Wordsworth 's was a face which did not assign itself to any class . |
| 21 | He therefore did not know whether , if the contract had been carefully read , the company would have observed that the information provided from the analysis did not enable it to be notified of matters that needed investigation . |
| 22 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 23 | ‘ She did not leave them to me , so nobody shall have them . ’ |
| 24 | God obviously did not mean her to be eaten by the wolves , for there were plenty about . |
| 25 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 26 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 27 | The Versailles peace conference acceded to Japan 's takeover of the former German concessions , but the Chinese refused to sign any treaty which did not return them to China , and Japan remained in occupation . |
| 28 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 29 | It would appear that God did not intend us to be fat . |
| 30 | I did not intend it to be . |