Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply did not want to play and confess that I was close to giving up completely . |
| 2 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 3 | ‘ I need someone with brains like you , ’ he said to Simon , not daring to turn and look into his face . |
| 4 | It would not need to thicken and curdle , and become dully opaque to defend its tender insides from the preying eyes of the world . |
| 5 | He travelled to the Continent but was not attracted to stay and study there . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a taxi waiting , ’ he stated as he escorted her out of the hotel , explaining , ‘ It is not permitted to drink and drive at all in Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 7 | They gather at his feet , not wanting to quack and alert the others , but almost desperate to shout from the waiting . |
| 8 | Not prepared to sit and watch a game |
| 9 | These beliefs about what low attainers can not do dictate and reflect the kind of learning experience these pupils have . |
| 10 | I stated that I would not hesitate to condemn and punish unacceptable behaviour ; equally , I would issue praise . |
| 11 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 12 | She did not like to stop and rest her arm for too long . |
| 13 | Creating these insurance to die is the number one need for financial independence , because we as doctors are going to spread the news with our modern lifestyles , because unlike the pneumonia patient you 're not going to recover and go back to work , unlike the , the heart transplant , as the heart transplant , or the heart attack or the cancer patient , maybe at our expense . |
| 14 | This is a ballet company : I 'm not going to try and change their lives . |
| 15 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |
| 16 | You 're not going to try and talk me out of it , I hope . ’ |
| 17 | You 're not going to try and reason with them ? |
| 18 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 19 | After a moment he added caustically , ‘ However , I presume you 're not going to try and deny that it was a portrait of you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Hope you 're not going to try and sell these , ’ he said . |
| 21 | There at least they would not have to see and hear the effect of the blows as clearly as those in front . |
| 22 | You did not have to rush and worry that it would have disappeared by the time you caught up with it . |
| 23 | Mocking supporters of legalisation writing in ‘ sophisticated newspapers ’ , the minister said perhaps they believed that suppliers , unmolested by the police , would , ‘ as an act of Christian charity ’ reduce their prices so their customers did not have to steal and prostitute themselves . |
| 24 | She did not have to stay and watch . |
| 25 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 26 | Because of the vast range of the information potentially bearing on a decision individuals do not attempt to collect and assess all of it before deciding , but settle for a more manageable sample . |
| 27 | And the magistrate warned him : ‘ You should not try to drive and use sign language at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | Another of my concerns was that Mrs Allen would not bother to cook and eat meals now that she no longer had to prepare anything for her husband . |
| 29 | Do not bother to write and tell me that in their culture etc , as that is really not good enough . |
| 30 | Note that an officer who is not authorised to test and inspect will have to ask the driver before his examination . |