Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything they did not eat went to waste : nothing was recycled or left for the servants , though Nicolae 's beloved dogs got scraps , if they tired of their imported frozen meat . |
| 2 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 3 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 4 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 5 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 6 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 7 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 8 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 9 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 10 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 11 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 12 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 13 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 14 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 16 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
| 17 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 18 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 19 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |
| 21 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 22 | Binding is not solely observed in neuronal tissue as we were also able to demonstrate binding in rat spleen extract , however it is not ubiquitous as we could not demonstrate binding in rat testis extract . |
| 23 | The assumption of those who decide where research money should go seems to be that surgeons do not need to participate in research ; they should be content to operate somewhere in the depths of the hospital and speak when spoken to . |
| 24 | They did not need to rely upon chance chemical events in the world outside to create the organic molecules from which they themselves were constructed . |
| 25 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 26 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 27 | When the reader does not need to dwell upon decoding , then words encountered early in a sentence will not have been forgotten and will , therefore , be available for integration with the words at the end of the sentence . |
| 28 | The share of profits was able to rise quickly because real wages did not need to grow in line with productivity . |
| 29 | They will not need to overreact with despair or anger . |
| 30 | The decision to design the lamp and gear separately was made so that consumers did not need to pay for control gear each time they bought a 2D lamp . |