Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [to-vb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I did not want to let her go . |
2 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
3 | If you would like me to send you further copies of these agreements , please do not hesitate to let me know . |
4 | Others , perhaps the most doubting , may not dare to let themselves know their qualms . |
5 | Egyptians , wary of historical backsliding , would not like to see them reopen . |
6 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
7 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
8 | I do not wish to see it become our future . |
9 | Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce . |
10 | Showing they do not mean to let anyone sleep on the job in creating better relations , pupils of Brackenhoe School , Middlesbrough , organised a bed push for South Cleveland Hospital 's baby monitor appeal . |
11 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
12 | I did not mean to make you feel unwelcome . |
13 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
14 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
15 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |