Example sentences of "[verb] not dare [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , he did not dare tell Balanchine ‘ it 's not working ’ , he thought he must try . |
| 2 | I tried calling softly , but there was no reply , and I did not dare make more noise for fear of disturbing the others . |
| 3 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 4 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 5 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 6 | Nicky looked crestfallen but did not dare argue with Constance when she was in this mood . |
| 7 | Vasilissa did not dare disobey . |
| 8 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 9 | The flower seller , Ms Sue Thompson , said : ‘ I did not dare say anything . |
| 10 | It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do . |
| 11 | She did not dare say more . |
| 12 | Genuine elections followed , but the democratic rulers did not dare put their military predecessors on trial . |
| 13 | It was all she wanted to know and did not dare ask directly . |
| 14 | I would have liked to drink coffee in one of the smoke-filled cafés lining the boulevard , but I did not dare enter . |
| 15 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 16 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She did not dare let go but hung on to the rail , where another four hands also hung on , for dear life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One would not think that that was Labour 's intention from reading the document ’ London United ’ issued by the Labour party , but one would know it from reading the draft of that document which the Labour party did not dare publish . |
| 21 | No wonder the party did not dare publish that document . |
| 22 | I do not dare open the blinds . |
| 23 | Consequently we do not dare assume that our partner will share our expectations in each situation . |
| 24 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 25 | Alternatively , the defendant may , by his conduct , have so terrified the victim , that she does not dare register her non-consent . |
| 26 | 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 . |