Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that he 's been out that long you know Alan and Cooper he 'll not want to miss any more football surely ? |
| 2 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 3 | I would not want to pre-empt any joyous , or even hopeful , news that he might tell us tonight . |
| 4 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 5 | She did not want to watch any more , but something made her stay , silent at the window . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 7 | However , in this chapter , I do not want to tackle any of those perceptions head on . |
| 8 | You will not want to reprove any children for talking during your speech . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Mrs Sandberg I do not want to talk any more . |
| 11 | Staff are being kept informed ; we do not want to prolong any period of uncertainty . ’ |
| 12 | The parents did not want to attend any more sessions and treatment was therefore terminated . |
| 13 | I did not want to show any sign of life . ’ |
| 14 | I did not want to show any sign of life . ’ |
| 15 | If the industry does not want to have any exemptions from the levy , it should be able to undertake such a policy in partnership with Government and the TECs . |
| 16 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 17 | She did not want to think any more about Ruth . |
| 18 | Mrs Donnelly said : ‘ I explained I did not want to buy any windows , but the salesman said he just wanted to show us what was on offer so I let him in . |
| 19 | Amnesty International does not want to hear any more excuses , from governments or from anybody else . |
| 20 | ‘ It was all so quick — the judges just said they did not want to hear any more arguments , convictions quashed and then got up and walked out ! |
| 21 | Although he had only met her briefly , he did not want to meet any more girls . |
| 22 | Naturally you will not want to make any commitment until you are certain that there is no chance he will change his mind and discover that it is after all you he loves . |
| 23 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 24 | He said that even if voters did not want to help any candidate , they should still go to the polling station to register their grievances . |
| 25 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not presume to make any claim , who am I to read such riddles ? |
| 27 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 28 | The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial . |
| 29 | The Vendors do not need to give any warranties in relation to the Accounts : the Purchaser can sue the auditors if the Accounts are wrong . |
| 30 | And yet this awareness does not need to take any of our precious time ; it merely needs to become a part of what we are doing anyway . |