Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 2 | Soon their palms became sticky , but the boy did not dare let go of the hand he had so daringly grasped , for that would have meant admitting that he was perspiring and ashamed of it . |
| 3 | She did not dare let go but hung on to the rail , where another four hands also hung on , for dear life . |
| 4 | Kirov was not going to let go now . |
| 5 | ‘ Material must have been impregnated with the liquid and it would not have helped put the fire out . ’ |
| 6 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 7 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 8 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 9 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 10 | It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist . |
| 11 | She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite . |
| 12 | Well we 've all got things that we do n't want to do have n't we ? |
| 13 | Do n't want to get get a lot off you ca n't but you want the speed the high speed for laminated copper . |
| 14 | But I do n't , not only that Marg , I mean , it 's become like a , but the only thing I do object to is these people marching about , and they do n't want to help pay for their children 's |
| 15 | The timetable does n't appear to bear bear any resemblance to what er I 've got on the programme . |
| 16 | I did n't know how badly you were injured , but I did n't dare let go of the wheel . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was n't going to let go easily . |
| 18 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 19 | He stopped with the door handle in his hand and quietly said , ‘ Yes , I 'll come back some day when you are gone and I 'll find where you 've hidden the gun , for you would n't have dared take it outside this room , would you ? |
| 20 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |
| 21 | I ca n't seem to have have yet heard definitely that this is going to be . |
| 22 | Did n't offer to help carry anything which was a bit of a surprise but then I suppose they 're not Sherpas are they ? |
| 23 | Cos it does n't help help select a general location . |