Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not think to emulate Mr Gladstone , who is reputed to have put tea in a stone ‘ pig ’ and then drunk it after the chill had been taken off the sheets . |
| 2 | He did not rush to console Alfred , however . |
| 3 | Leaving aside for the moment purely defensive moves , not calculated to increase efficiency , responses may , following Eisenberg 's terminology , lead to improvements in operating efficiency or resource efficiency . |
| 4 | Perhaps they did not want to confuse birds with animals , leaving the term whitearse exclusively avian . |
| 5 | I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses . |
| 6 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 7 | Although unprepared for the success of his party Brazauskas called for a " government of national agreement " , adding ; " We will talk to other parties and do not want to usurp power . " |
| 8 | Dexter was gasping for a drink but decided thirst was the better part of subordination : he did not want to annoy Blanche by prolonging the interruption . |
| 9 | However , Herod did not want to kill John , because , the Bible tells us , ‘ He was afraid of John because he knew that John was a good and holy man . ’ |
| 10 | Second , there is a different sense in which private individuals may not want to conserve soil or have a small family other than the most obvious that it may not benefit them . |
| 11 | She recently turned down £1,500 for a day 's work because she did not want to miss school . |
| 12 | He did not want to take life seriously , and he felt his relationship with Constance — and her independence — were forcing him to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ The Belarussian government does not want to take responsibility for the results of market reforms . |
| 14 | Patrick did not want to take Chris back to the Barbican . |
| 15 | Quite apart from the constitutional issues , they do not want to take risks with what is being achieved in the ERM . |
| 16 | I did not want to take risks with them . |
| 17 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 18 | Frye writes that ‘ left to themselves ’ women would not want to serve men . |
| 19 | Most Norwegians do not want to let others get their hands on the goodies — and that is what EC membership would involve . |
| 20 | He did not want to let Smallfry down again . |
| 21 | I do not want to let schools off : they should compete in terms of truancy or examination tables . |
| 22 | ‘ Harold , Felicity may not want to see Magdalen , she 's probably tired after her journey . |
| 23 | ‘ There will come a day , sooner or later , when he will not want to see Lulach . |
| 24 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 25 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 26 | We do not want to see pensioners ' or anybody else 's savings eroded by the inflation levels sustained by the then Labour Government . |
| 27 | But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice . |
| 28 | I mean , fair enough , I can understand why they might not want to see Mr and Mrs Mowatt . |
| 29 | Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’ |
| 30 | The Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service , Dr Richard Leakey , commented that : " We do not want to see ivory having a commercial value , because if it has , people will continue to steal it . |