Example sentences of "did not [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to remember Glasgow . |
| 2 | The Prior , ever curious , also tried to intervene but Corbett , taciturn and withdrawn , made it plain he did not want to answer questions . |
| 3 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 4 | She recently turned down £1,500 for a day 's work because she did not want to miss school . |
| 5 | Dexter was gasping for a drink but decided thirst was the better part of subordination : he did not want to annoy Blanche by prolonging the interruption . |
| 6 | In a recent NOP poll , 83 per cent of those questioned did not want to drink milk treated with BST . |
| 7 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 8 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 9 | I did not want to lose Sarah 's friendship . |
| 10 | She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . |
| 11 | It should have been a fairly calm journey but the car was driven by a nervous new driver who did not want to lose face . |
| 12 | Grégoire did not want to visit Louise . |
| 13 | Léonie did not want to watch Thérèse clamber on his knee , twist her blonde curls with one finger , ogle him . |
| 14 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 15 | Perhaps they did not want to confuse birds with animals , leaving the term whitearse exclusively avian . |
| 16 | The woman did not want to press charges , the detective said , because of the prominent position she and her husband hold in London society . |
| 17 | He received hospital treatment for a cut eye and a split lip but told police that he did not want to press charges . |
| 18 | ‘ The British just wanted to move whole industrial sites , whereas I did not want to force people to move from the South Bronx . |
| 19 | He did not want to take life seriously , and he felt his relationship with Constance — and her independence — were forcing him to do so . |
| 20 | Patrick did not want to take Chris back to the Barbican . |
| 21 | I did not want to take risks with them . |
| 22 | It was a difficult move , he admits , not because he did not want to leave Scotland ‘ if you 're happy , it does n't matter where you are , and if you 're unhappy it does n't matter where you are ’ — but because ‘ a Scotsman coming to London to run the national firm is n't everybody 's cup of tea ’ . |
| 23 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 24 | She did not want to leave Alain . |
| 25 | It was reported last night in my local paper ‘ Irish Press ’ that Rocky stated that he did not want to leave Leeds and was prepared to wait his chance like everybody else . |
| 26 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 27 | He did not want to let Smallfry down again . |
| 28 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 29 | At first , I did not want to sell Xury as a slave , after all our dangerous adventures together . |
| 30 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |