Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 2 | They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight . |
| 3 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 4 | Johnson soon wished to leave , and pressed Boswell , who , of his very nature , did not want to go until he had met the Earl . |
| 5 | But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it . |
| 6 | But people do not want to complain because of the stresses and strains of going public with that information . |
| 7 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 8 | She decided that she did not want to stay because she did not like the job . |
| 9 | The cafe was shut , she did not want to walk as the grass had withered to an unappealing brown , and she had left her papers at home . |
| 10 | But , East Antrim MP Roy Beggs , says he believes the Irish Government do not want to investigate because the case could embarrass senior political figures . |
| 11 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 12 | If we look at the rates proposals — I shall give way to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside — He does not want to intervene because what I am saying is right . |
| 13 | that was not intended to see if you could survive that , although that does happen |
| 14 | In some parts of North America , women are advised not to go camping when they have a period . |
| 15 | Apparently , Croatian fighters shoot across the front of vehicles they do not recognise to test if they are hostile . |
| 16 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 17 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 18 | This does not need replenishing unless the surface is very hard ( quartzite or chert ) . |
| 19 | They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see . |
| 20 | Demand was not expected to improve until the second half of the year , despite gross capital investment ( which had risen by 5 per cent in 1989 compared with 1988 , but was down by 30 per cent compared with 1980 ) . |
| 21 | But it 's not expected to re-open until the trial of 58 year old Ron Godfrey , Margaret 's husband , is held . |
| 22 | Quota trading to back up claims made in 1994 was not expected to begin until after 15 September . |
| 23 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 24 | He asked the Church Commissioners to do it but would not wait to see whether they consented . |
| 25 | Downing Street admitted last night that the Maastricht Treaty may not finish going though the House for a year . |
| 26 | She went out into the hall , not looking to see if he followed her . |
| 27 | The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation . |
| 28 | It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes . |
| 29 | Plate descent itself does not seem to be a major factor as isostatic rebound does not appear to occur after subduction has stopped . |
| 30 | Lecturers did not appear to bother whether I attended their lectures or not . |