Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 32 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 33 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 34 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 35 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 36 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
| 37 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 38 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 39 | He determined the framework and the broad outline , brought 10 specialists with him and acquired a small bureau operation Howden did not want any more . |
| 40 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 41 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 42 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 43 | She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it . |
| 44 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
| 45 | He promised in the Chamber that he did not want any volunteers to be turned away from offering their service , and I am sure that he will do his best to keep that promise . |
| 46 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 47 | Middleton did not want any of that but he said he would go and talk to his crew . |
| 48 | She did not want any more pretend closeness , any more sham togetherness . |
| 49 | She said she did not want any fuss , that she was fine , and everyone over there has been marvellous . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |
| 51 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 52 | No , she did not want some of Harry 's handful of flour and dal ! |
| 53 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 54 | She did not want another man in her life . |
| 55 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 56 | He did not want another woman , not even as emetic . |
| 57 | He gave the two armed men on the slaves ' camp orders not to leave their posts , as he did not want more hands taking advantage of the confusion to run away and join the maroons infesting Oualie nearby . |
| 58 | This did not make such theories false , but it did prevent them being seriously developed as scientific theories . |
| 59 | The GUSTO trial assessed the risks and benefits of immediate intravenous heparin or delayed subcutaneous heparin in addition to streptokinase ( and found no mortality benefit ) , but did not make such comparisons for tPA or anistreplase nor provide any mortality comparison of intravenous heparin and no heparin . |
| 60 | Carefoot ( 1977 ) , considering the feeding habits of the Pacific V. lamellosa predating mussels , Mytilus edulis , or acorn barnacles , Balanus glandula , in the laboratory , did not make that mistake . |