Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time , you old gypsy man , Will you not stay Put up your caravan Just for one day ? |
| 2 | Many commentaries without such an explicit and analytical statement , bewail the lack of political will , expertise or rational planning , without offering any explanation as to why these qualities frequently do not exist to carry out effective conservation . |
| 3 | Some soldiers had said that when the war was over they did not want to take up Party work any longer : ‘ Many of them think that they have done enough through their service at the Front or also behind the front-lines , and point to those of similar age or younger who were not soldiers . ’ |
| 4 | Customers may not want to take up the credit on offer . |
| 5 | In that case the union had negotiated a favourable package for those employees whom the transferee did not want to take on and who , it was agreed , should remain with the transferor . |
| 6 | Lord Mayor , clearly that is what the Tories do not want to happen in . |
| 7 | Mr Mieno does not want to let up until he is sure the job is done . |
| 8 | She said ; I would not want to go up there . |
| 9 | She said ; I would not want to go up there in this wind . |
| 10 | I do not want to go over that ground again ; suffice it to say that we accept the Secretary of State 's assurance that the Government are making a genuine effort to find a mechanism to implement Lord Cullen 's recommendation 30 . |
| 11 | ‘ The Bravoes may not want to go around asking questions , they 'll probably just stake out her house . |
| 12 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend mean that British industrialists do not want to go back to national plans , solemn and binding undertakings , high inflation , nationalisation , high taxation and trade union unrest ? |
| 14 | Industrialists know that that policy was a failure , and they do not want to go back to it . |
| 15 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She said she had liked her flat but would not want to go back there . |
| 17 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The Minister has repeatedly said that he does not want to single out the defence industry for special consideration . |
| 19 | How I slept too much , and less and less well of course , but the truth was I did not want to wake up . |
| 20 | She did not want to wake up . |
| 21 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He does not want to hold on to it . |
| 23 | I do not want to hold out false general hope , but in some cases assistance might be available . |
| 24 | They do not want to give up , to throw in the towel , to admit defeat . |
| 25 | Dieters keep trying , going back on some diet or other , because they do not want to give up on themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ In difficult times people want value for money but do not want to give up their favourite designer label brands . |
| 27 | ‘ In difficult times people want value for money but do not want to give up their favourite designer label brands . |
| 28 | The real reason is I am frightened what folk will say , or I do not want to give up this particular habit of mine . |
| 29 | It does not want to move up until the tax rules for BES investments have been fulfilled in January . |
| 30 | This patient just wants to sit miserably by the fire , warming the back , or to lie tucked up cosily in bed , and does not want to move around or to make any effort whatsoever . |