Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 2 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 3 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 4 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 5 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 6 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 7 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 8 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 9 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 10 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 11 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 12 | He did not want anybody to see him . |
| 13 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 14 | I realized that Hindley did not care what conditions he lived in , and Joseph clearly spent more time praying than cleaning . |
| 15 | They loved one another and did not care who knew it . |
| 16 | If Foley were a traitor , he did not care who knew it , it would seem . |
| 17 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 18 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 19 | But it did not move him to pity her . |
| 20 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 21 | There was no way the police could hold Philip Drew , but this did not stop them following him . |
| 22 | Her garden was a source of great pleasure and she was very proud of her wonderful displays of Pelargonuims — she did not like you to call them geraniums ! |
| 23 | Her educational budget did not allow her to expand it or to make significant innovative changes . |
| 24 | As she stood there , heart racing , just for a moment Lisa did not trust herself to answer him . |
| 25 | We did not let them put us down easily . |
| 26 | and the furry monster was there and the church bells rang unceasingly , my muse was red with righteous anger , o my love , and her hound barked at the furry monster and her frankfurter but i did not let them see me for worshipping in silence is the artist 's choice , that is the way for growth . |
| 27 | If they did not let her see him until they both appeared before the prince , what wild errors might he not commit in his insecurity ? |
| 28 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 29 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 30 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |