Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 2 | Soon their palms became sticky , but the boy did not dare let go of the hand he had so daringly grasped , for that would have meant admitting that he was perspiring and ashamed of it . |
| 3 | She did not dare let go but hung on to the rail , where another four hands also hung on , for dear life . |
| 4 | ‘ Material must have been impregnated with the liquid and it would not have helped put the fire out . ’ |
| 5 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 6 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 7 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 8 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 9 | She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite . |