Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath . |
| 2 | Fenna did not want her to menstruate , Fenna would not allow her to desire . |
| 3 | Fenna did not want her to bleed , and because Fenna did not want it , she had not wanted it either . |
| 4 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 5 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 6 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 7 | He dared not pull away , even though he did not want her to feel his changing body , but at this point one of her gentle caresses touched the corner of his mouth and before he could stop himself his mouth was on hers , and restrain himself as he might it was a lover 's kiss , not a friend 's . |
| 8 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |
| 9 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 10 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 11 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 12 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 13 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 14 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 15 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 16 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 17 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 18 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 19 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 20 | The touch of his hand on her body made her tremble , but she did not want him to stop . |
| 21 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 23 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 24 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 25 | And she did not want him to go . |
| 26 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 27 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 28 | She did not want him to exercise his leg until the infected burn had healed completely . |
| 29 | There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated . |
| 30 | She did not want him to think , she said , that she was really rich , that was only a kind of joke . |