Example sentences of "do not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school |
| 2 | And what does it matter to us , ordinary businesspeople , who have day to day jobs to do which certainly do not involve make or break run-ins with unions ? |
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| 5 | Often people who share your compartment wish to relax and do not wish to indulge in polite conversation , they may just want to read a newspaper or magazine so we must respect their wishes . |
| 6 | What the layman is supposed to do the authors do not wish to contemplate . ’ |
| 7 | Lloyd George disarmed his opponents on Ireland with his Russian policy , and his opponents on Russia with his Irish policy , and they did not combine to oppose him . |
| 8 | While the more broadly based Architects and Antiquaries Club , founded in 1819 , while attempting to be an academic institution , did not aim to answer the growing need for a professional association . |
| 9 | The political press , directed as it was to a small , literate and politically informed public , did not aim to capture its readers with an entertaining and interesting package . |
| 10 | The second point that I want to make is I 'm not denying that the western relief road would bring some improvement and if the western relief road did not damage did not cause serious environmental damage , I would not be arguing against it . |
| 11 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 12 | And if she were dead , what had happened to her before dying did not bear thinking about ( though he did think about it , all the same ) . |
| 13 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 14 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 15 | I was now very weak from lack of food , and I began to wonder why I should struggle to stay alive , when I did not want to live . |
| 16 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 17 | I had to tell the story in a manner that the children would understand , but I did not want to risk ruining their sleep by a description of details . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 19 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 20 | He did not want to remember Glasgow . |
| 21 | Clive did not want to answer . |
| 22 | The Prior , ever curious , also tried to intervene but Corbett , taciturn and withdrawn , made it plain he did not want to answer questions . |
| 23 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 24 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 25 | But it was a beautiful book , too ; I did not want to put it down . |
| 26 | I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama . |
| 27 | We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon . |
| 28 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 29 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 30 | He says there appeared to be no demand for another residential home because the residents did not want to continue living together in such a large number . |