Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrice pretended not to have heard . |
| 2 | Mr Gorbachev has not bothered to hide his disapproval of the way Mr Ceausescu and his family have ruled Romania . |
| 3 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 4 | Considering the effects of language on delicate sensibilities , John Mortimer — whose main concern had been to keep the Sex Pistols as far away from court as possible — pondered that the word Maidenhead did not appear to cause the inhabitants of that town any problems . |
| 5 | Surely Cunningham did not mean to pretend nothing had happened . |
| 6 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 7 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 8 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 9 | In June 1990 Ferenc Bartha , the National Bank president , reported that Hungary did not wish to reschedule the country 's $20,700 million foreign debt . |
| 10 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 11 | But luckily for his successors , Montagus , Brudenells and , since 1790 , Scotts , Montagu did not aspire to create an English Versailles . |
| 12 | Dersingham did not bother to look at the man . |
| 13 | In spite of David 's childhood marriage to the sister of the English king , Edward did not hesitate to help a Balliol descendant make a bid for the Scottish throne , driving David and Joan into exile in France after the battle of Halidon Hill near Berwick . |
| 14 | The campaign never took place , however , and Edward did not try to revive this method of payment for those who served in the army which was defeated at Bannockburn . |
| 15 | As I 've just said , Herod did not intend to kill John the Baptist but his wife , Herodias , did . |
| 16 | However , Herod did not want to kill John , because , the Bible tells us , ‘ He was afraid of John because he knew that John was a good and holy man . ’ |
| 17 | Cassie found herself saying , but Johnny appeared not to have heard . |
| 18 | But Charlotte , Emily and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame . |
| 19 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 20 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 21 | However , Angus did not intend to give up his pursuit of her ; she fascinated him as no other woman had . |
| 22 | He regretted the abruptness of the question , but Surere did not appear to have noticed . |
| 23 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 24 | Richard did not like to have to think about two things at once , particularly at the end of the day . |
| 25 | After this encounter , Miss Kenton did not attempt to introduce further flowers into my pantry , and in general , I was pleased to observe , she went about settling in impressively . |
| 26 | Branson did not have to like Randolph Fields , but , in a curious sort of way , he admired him . |
| 27 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 28 | FRANKIE DID NOT WANT to think of his mam and the Irishman . |
| 29 | Delia Sutherland did not need to go nearer to know who they were — apparitions of herself , her father . |
| 30 | This was a declaration of sorts , however lightly made , and one which Dr Neil had not thought to make to any woman in any form , and before Sally-Anne could take in its full meaning he rapidly continued , ‘ And now let us stop providing entertainment for the passers-by . |