Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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1 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
2 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
3 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
4 | I did not want that . |
5 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Trees did not make that dry , brittle sound , as if old , dead bones were being rubbed together . |
8 | But , where the clause did not contain that useful provision , an awkward party ran no risk in simply refusing to appoint a valuer , with the result that the reference could not go ahead and there was no way of obtaining a valuation . |
9 | ‘ Well , I did not expect that from you . ’ |
10 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
11 | Zsuzsa , who had been playing chess since the age of four , won her Master title in 1982 at the age of 13 ( Karpov did not reach that standard until 15 ) ; she was an International Master at 18 . |
12 | But abolitionists did not reach that position along a single straight path . |
13 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
14 | The pace of political change did not match that of the economic sector . |
15 | But even this spectacular rate of growth did not match that of many London suburbs . |
16 | He said the council is pledged to quality service throughout the town and cars parked in gardens did not match that pledge . |
17 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
18 | He did not do that any more . |
19 | The nursing staff definitely did not do that . |
20 | ‘ She did not do that , Headmistress ! ’ |
21 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
22 | Women did not do that kind of thing , even in cosmopolitan Cairo . |
23 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
24 | The description was vague and did not fit that of Daniel 's murderer . |
25 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
26 | Franco , however , did not fit that mould . |
27 | The man did not think that Boy ever gave his address or phone number to anyone . |
28 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
29 | He did not answer that straight away . |
30 | Rory did not answer that immediately . |