Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 2 | ‘ You will not stay to watch me skate ? ’ |
| 3 | I must not stay to tell you his sweet sayings , save one . |
| 4 | In the developed countries of the world , the UK and the USA represent the ‘ flexible ’ view of financial reporting : accounting standards exist to narrow the areas of difference ; they do not exist to eliminate them . |
| 5 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 6 | At the moment , the number of people suffering from flu in Scotland is nowhere near those levels , but one or two football managers may well be feeling ‘ as sick as a parrot ’ because they did not think to have their highly-priced investments vaccinated before the winter began . |
| 7 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 8 | Or a verdict in the field , ’ he said , abruptly flashing fire , ‘ for if you have occasion to speak with the Lord Owen again , you may tell him I will not spare to do my uttermost against him . ’ |
| 9 | There have been times when I felt that our family was disintegrating , and while I know that more than one in three marriages fails , that does not make watching your own children admit their unhappiness any easier for them or for you . |
| 10 | They did not want to confuse their audience with images of pacifists , masochists or the self-proclaimed ‘ fierce dykes ’ who screamed that they wanted to make love to the first lady . |
| 11 | It is in my mind that they did not want to kill me , but Isay was left to face them alone . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes you are so nice I do not want to kill you , Mr Wilson ! ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ And when I came to England , I did not want to kill your Queen . |
| 14 | Karen did not want to miss it , any more . |
| 15 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run . |
| 17 | I do not want to take your silly name any longer . |
| 18 | Possibly this made you uneasy , or possibly , with the storm blowing up , you did not want to take your boat across to the mainland again , so you decided to let things alone , and not risk taking any stolen goods on board . |
| 19 | I would also like to know how critical the timing of the distributor pump is , as I have tried adjusting it ( by trial and error ) about a couple of degrees , with some improvement in performance , but do not want to take it too far . |
| 20 | The shy ten-year-old did not want to take it because she had her new skirt on and a clean blouse and was intent on the fair . |
| 21 | I did not want to repeat myself too often . |
| 22 | I did not want to lock myself in with Heathcliff . |
| 23 | They did not want to waste their time , effort , money and future chances in taking on an impregnable President . |
| 24 | They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner 's surgery . |
| 25 | I do not want to waste your time today discussing this rubbish . |
| 26 | I do not want to waste my time writing for silly buggers like you . |
| 27 | It was only because his employer did not want to waste his time in court proceedings that Willy escaped probation and a possible jail sentence . |
| 28 | You start to see a pattern developing in your study and you do not want to let yourself down by not studying today . |
| 29 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 30 | 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 . |