Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at such a moment as that there were eagles in other parts of the Cages who seemed not to have noticed what had happened . |
| 2 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 3 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 4 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 5 | Secondly , though it is true that most farmers we interviewed reserved special contempt for the MAFF scientists from Whitehall because they understood little about marginal hill farming , and worse did not appear to think they needed to know , local MAFF officials ( not scientists ) in the Carlisle Divisional Office were a completely different case . |
| 6 | Surely Cunningham did not mean to pretend nothing had happened . |
| 7 | Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 9 | I did not mean to make you feel unwelcome . |
| 10 | The charge was dismissed on the ground that Michigan state law did not prohibit assisting someone to commit suicide . |
| 11 | Her father did not bother to watch her go . |
| 12 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 13 | Ursula did not attempt to persuade her to stay , for which she was grateful . |
| 14 | It got to the stage where we did n't bother to ask what happened to it . |
| 15 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 16 | I told you everything I did that afternoon but I did n't bother to mention I fell asleep . |
| 17 | We did n't bother waking her to tell her she was dead . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't pay to get it printed , you know . |
| 19 | Maurice probably did n't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram 's letters . |
| 20 | Even that surprised me until I found out afterwards that George had known about it all along ; I suppose they did n't want to risk him bringing it up first . |
| 21 | Responsibility for Tibbles was a free-floating affair , mainly consisting of whoever did n't want to feed her saying to whoever they thought should be feeding her , ‘ She 's your cat ! ’ |
| 22 | His wife did n't want to watch him suffer , and she wanted him to die also , and she did n't want to see any suffering . |
| 23 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 24 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 25 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 26 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 27 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 28 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 29 | Because she did n't want go she did n't know what hell |
| 30 | We did n't want to leave her to go home alone . |