Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age .
2 Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear .
3 He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down .
4 Here , they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end .
5 He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth .
6 But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes .
7 In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine .
8 the assisted areas do not appear to operate at a disadvantage .
9 When it was some ten metres away and was obviously not going to stop at the shelter , Adam stepped right into its path .
10 For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out .
11 If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ?
12 If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other .
13 The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out .
14 In other words , you do not have to look at every instrument continuously .
15 One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain .
16 The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality .
17 The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field .
18 Mind you 're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart .
19 It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain .
20 One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock .
21 The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be .
22 Dersingham did not bother to look at the man .
23 He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why .
24 Ms Weldon , a member of the committee who was not asked to sit at the hearing , described the video as a serious attempt to deal with the bride of Christ notion .
25 It did not seem to matter at the time .
26 Phelpses built boats , maintained boats , became champion scullers , taught the gentlemen how to scull , and bowed and doffed their caps ‘ below stairs ’ at the clubs before the war when watermen were not allowed to drink at the bar .
27 At the time I was involved in various things at Philips Records and I asked someone if they knew of anyone who could get David out of his contract , and was told that he knew a man called Tony DeFries who was actually not allowed to practise at the bar — he was a consultant , a trouble-shooter , divorce cases .
28 Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection .
29 The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism .
30 Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape .
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