Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 2 | On the issue of regional government , I do not want to distance myself from English history , but I recognise that Whitehall government is a long way from Manchester . |
| 3 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 4 | Surely she does not want to deprive them of these amenities ? |
| 5 | I do not want to hear anything like that again . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly . |
| 7 | You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole . |
| 8 | Blanche had increasingly come to accept that doing her best was good enough and that she did not need to measure herself against some ideal standard . |
| 9 | They enjoy water and do not hesitate to enter it on warm days . |
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| 13 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 14 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
| 15 | ‘ Colonel , I do not like to remind you of this , but I saved your son 's life . |
| 16 | He did not stop to warn them of any of the unseen hazards he was first to discover . |
| 17 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 18 | As it happened , Mr Kim did not have to do anything about this affair . |
| 19 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 20 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 21 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 22 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 23 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 24 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 25 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 26 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 27 | Not doubling it , not trebling it , but to improve it by something like five or ten percent , and then the next time we go to a sales conference , you 'll be the ones winning the prizes , instead of the people who 've to be winning the prizes , because you 'll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you ? |
| 28 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 29 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 30 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |