Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 2 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 3 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 4 | That contemporary account did not think to mention the 160 exhibition buildings connected by canals which were plied by gondolas and steam boats . |
| 5 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 6 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 7 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 8 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 9 | You 'll not want to take the little green job , the traffic 's awful in the middle . |
| 10 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 11 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 12 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 13 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 14 | She did not want to cultivate the snob image . |
| 15 | But it was the only one available , since Jarvis did not want to let the other rooms on the second floor . |
| 16 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 17 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 18 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 19 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 20 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 21 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 22 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 23 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 24 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 25 | Voters do not want to see the Tories achieve their ultimate goal the destruction of the NHS , the welfare state and a return to Victorian-style society . |
| 26 | We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting . |
| 27 | No inhumanely produced veal need be eaten in this country if consumers say that they do not want to touch the filthy stuff . |
| 28 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 29 | I did not want to mirror the face-value language , the physiognomy of the architecture . |
| 30 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |