Example sentences of "not [verb] they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 2 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 3 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 4 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 5 | In a climate of teacher expertise , teachers frequently pre-empt pupils ' decisions because they do not want them to ‘ get into a mess ’ . |
| 6 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 7 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 8 | But Mr Oteng added : ‘ It is up to the media to try to dispel racist stereotypes , not push them to the forefront . |
| 9 | I was very fond of these , and often wondered as a child why people did not consider them to be art . |
| 10 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 11 | Free feed in this instance is not to attract them to our swim , for if we have chosen wisely we will already be fishing on the patrol route which they follow regardless of groundbait being present or not . |
| 12 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 13 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 14 | Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful insects and one does not expect them to be venomous or poisonous . |
| 15 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 16 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 17 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 18 | And do not expect them to be up to date — if you carry on reading Practical PC you might soon know more about state of the art computing than the tutor . |
| 19 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 20 | They 're also on sale at the chemist 's with other formula milks , but you should not give them to your child without talking to your doctor or health visitor first to see if they 're suitable . |
| 21 | So why not give them to me ? |
| 22 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 23 | But if one does not believe them to be symbolically ‘ true ’ but false to one 's belief in human equality , there is no point in having made this sideways move . |
| 24 | I 'm not forcing them to be anything because we have other bands and artists who we can force and push to success . |
| 25 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 26 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 27 | Mr Kerswell explained firms were asked first and foremost to teach trainees a skill , not to expect them to be productive . |
| 28 | I want to spray the little devils , not kick them to death ! |
| 29 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 30 | The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes . |