Example sentences of "this [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I 'm not giving you long to do this do n't waste time . |
| 2 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 3 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 4 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 5 | Usually this did n't matter because the Parquet confined itself to criminal offences and there was no religious dimension involved . |
| 6 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 7 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 8 | But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal . |
| 9 | This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure . |
| 10 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 11 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 12 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 13 | This did n't stop her , however , from loosing a stream of automatic fire across the water to the other side of the docks , where men were smashed backwards by the force of the impacts . |
| 14 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 15 | A single dose of Puls 200 produced a night free of flushes but this did n't hold and repetition of the Puls 200 after 2 days had no effect nor did increasing to Puls 1M or returning to Puls LM4 . |
| 16 | This did n't go down too well . |
| 17 | This did n't go down quite as well . |
| 18 | This did n't go down very well with the rest of the senate , but found great favour with Caesar , who allowed the sixty-first senator to keep umbrage . |
| 19 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 20 | This did n't give the guy a lot of confidence about his bet , but I do n't think the thought of losing had entered Peter 's head . |
| 21 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 22 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |
| 23 | This did n't bother me . |
| 24 | The Buenos Aires flight was delayed and the plane horribly hot , but this did n't upset the passengers who seemed delighted to be going home . |
| 25 | This did n't make any sense . |
| 26 | This did n't make any sense . |
| 27 | Writing this down , I realize she is afraid , but this morning she shared her fear so publicly and laughed so heartily that this did n't strike me till now . |
| 28 | Naturally , this did n't affect her competence to teach at the University of Oxford , because until quite recently the place preferred to treat modern languages as if they were dead : this made them more respectable , more like the distant perfections of Latin and Greek . |
| 29 | But this did n't deter Sam at all , and three days later he was pacing in the kitchen while Letty Carew and Jane Polwhele assisted his wife in the delivery of a daughter . |
| 30 | But this did n't deter fans who flocked just to catch a glimpse . |