Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " . |
| 2 | She knew the doctor thought she was a lunatic , but as she would never see her again , it did not matter now as much as the truth . |
| 3 | It did not matter now that he was stiff , itching , cold , and dry-mouthed with hunger . |
| 4 | But that did not matter now . |
| 5 | When he sang to me — and he did not sound now as if he meant it very much — I tried to think of something else … |
| 6 | It did not come now . |
| 7 | He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass . |
| 8 | He had known nothing of her plans , he did not know now what to expect , why this confining door should ever have been opened now , at this end of the day , after all permitted visits were over . |
| 9 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
| 10 | She did not smile now but her eyelids with those amazing lashes slowly closed and Abigail gave a sigh , wriggled her body , moved her head and subsided back into deep sleep . |
| 11 | I do not intend now to resurrect the metaphysical theory I said in Chapter 2 that we do not need . |
| 12 | It is going to involve a substantial input of accounting ( and , of course , data processing ) resources particularly where they do not exist now : in directly managed hospitals , in NHS Hospital Trusts , in the Family Practitioner Committees , and in the GP Practices . |
| 13 | I found myself pleading — ‘ Oh do not go now I have found thee ’ Why can I not stay with thee forever ? ’ |
| 14 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 15 | I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB . |
| 16 | I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 . |
| 17 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |
| 18 | ‘ It is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe , but if we do not act now we will see the same kind of draconian measures becoming necessary in Britain as are already being undertaken in Europe . |
| 19 | ‘ If we do not act now , you will not recognise this country ten years from now , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I did n't think before I went into the recruiting office and became a marine , and I did n't think now . |
| 21 | He would be bald before he was fifty but I did n't think now was the time to tell him . |
| 22 | I did n't care now if 1 did n't get another bite . |
| 23 | The music did n't hurt now . |
| 24 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 25 | A day did n't pass now during which it failed to occur to her that she had borne two congenital liars . |
| 26 | Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly . |
| 27 | Later , there had been the scene she did n't want now to remember : |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't mean now . ’ |
| 29 | Because the money did n't matter now , and our games were more evenly and bitterly fought , and we agreed that the rivalry should n't — and indeed could n't — get any tenser . |
| 30 | I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England . |