Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 32 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 33 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 34 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
| 35 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 36 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 37 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 38 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 39 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
| 40 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 41 | The old thick rad did not give enough clearance for a normal or any other type of fan . |
| 42 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I did not want that . |
| 47 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 48 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 49 | The US did not want this and refused to sign . |
| 50 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 51 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 52 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 57 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |