Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 2 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 3 | Furthermore , who would guess , if they did not already happen to know , that the huge sum raised by plants was the achievement and gift of one family – the Crawfords ? |
| 4 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 5 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 6 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 7 | Fisher called him Michael , Ramsey did not yet dare to call Fisher Geoffrey . |
| 8 | Tolkien saw the problem of evil in books as in realities , and he told his story at least in part to dramatise that problem ; he did not however claim to know the answer to it . |
| 9 | Kulaks who joined the Imperial Navy , even in the commissioned ranks , did not normally expect to enjoy a long life . |
| 10 | Minton did not consciously try to impose his style on others , but respected the individuality of his students . |
| 11 | People in these positions did not consciously seek to become part of an elite , rather they were the unwitting members of a structure of institutions — the military , the industrial and the political — which had coincidental needs . |
| 12 | Richard did not even want to preside . |
| 13 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 14 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 15 | It was his chance , but he did not even think to run . |
| 16 | The Germans did not even bother to look for the escaped I prisoners . |
| 17 | However , with a customary lack of vision , Stoke did not even bother to reply . |
| 18 | She knew her husband was coming that evening but , when he failed to arrive , did not even bother to send out any search-party to look for him . |
| 19 | His replacement , Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Monro , who did not even bother to land on the peninsula , declared for evacuation . |
| 20 | Sandison did not even bother to check his pulse or try to revive him . |
| 21 | He did not even appear to get on well with his colleagues . |
| 22 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 23 | Now she did not even wish to try , for fear of rousing up something terrible . |
| 24 | The animal did not even trouble to look up as Mungo passed ; probably feeling , as he did , that this part of the day was best enjoyed alone . |
| 25 | She did not even wait to have her breakfast . |
| 26 | His Chief of Staff ( Ops ) did not even seem to know what were the boundaries of the various corps under command ; there was no map of troop positions , and no one could state just what orders had been issued . |
| 27 | She did not even seem to mind the rather bad headache . |
| 28 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 29 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 30 | There was always an angry expression on his face , and he did not even try to keep himself clean and tidy . |