Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew he could not dare go out of the main door . |
| 2 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 3 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 4 | The truth is that the Labour party does not dare come out in favour of a programme of competition of this nature because it is in hock to the very public sector unions that have sought to oppose it over the years . |
| 5 | He did not doubt that she was a prisoner , for these were the Warden 's men who they had thought would not dare come so far into the forest . |
| 6 | She did not dare say more . |
| 7 | It was all she wanted to know and did not dare ask directly . |
| 8 | Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further . |
| 9 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 10 | As she looked into it , she tried not to let slip just what a luxury this was . |
| 11 | The Robemaker 's sentries were not letting go easily … |
| 12 | Mental exercise , including reading this book , will not help burn up any calories . |
| 13 | However , the deficiency of H is clear , and there are no plausible means by which H can be retained in the interior in substantially greater quantities than C and N. In section 4.4.3 certain difficulties were noted of Venus losing to space large quantities of H. To these difficulties must now be added the difficulty that if Venus has lost large quantities of H to space then the Earth , with its warm exosphere and Mars with its low gravitational field , should also have lost large quantities of H. This supports the conclusion that Venus has always been deficient in H , but it does not help explain why . |