Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 2 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
| 3 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 4 | Bismarck was alarmed ; he did not want to have to choose between his allies in a Balkan quarrel . |
| 5 | She did not want to have to think about problems , whatever they might be . |
| 6 | But she did not want to have to confront him right now , she thought frantically . |
| 7 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 8 | She did not want to prepare to leave . |
| 9 | Seton had hardly spoken to any since his son 's death ; Gray was never loquacious ; and Ramsay not only again felt something like guilt at deserting Berwick in its hour of need , but did not relish having to tell the Randolph sisters the terrible news and the possibility that their brother might be one of the casualties . |
| 10 | Many of those who did not marry chose to live together instead . |
| 11 | The mare was not as fast as Grye but she had the edge on the stallion when it came to jumping , and Seb did not intend stopping to open any gates . |
| 12 | Before the originating summons was served upon the mother the father had not made her aware of his intention to ‘ go back ’ upon his letter of 23 September 1991 in which he had said that he did not intend to seek to have the children returned to Australia . |
| 13 | Julian did not feel called to reform the church or to take part in public life : she remained a loyal daughter of Mother Church and stayed in seclusion for the rest of her life . |
| 14 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 15 | Like Hsu , Fitzgerald had been a pupil of Malinowski , but he did not feel compelled to turn the Min Chia into Chinese . |
| 16 | Unfortunately that was insufficient to keep Ballingall employed , for the General was not on good terms with Ballingall , and clearly did not feel compelled to serve Lord Melville , and it was the latter whom Ballingall chose to blame for his misfortunes , complaining of the injustice of this treatment when ‘ Lord Melville never had a more staunch friend , nor strinuous supporter in the district of these Boroughs ’ . |
| 17 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 18 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 19 | Perhaps because it seems so obvious , the theorists did not bother to try to find out whether delinquents did in fact hold delinquent values , but concentrated more on explaining how these values came about . |
| 20 | Richard did not like to have to think about two things at once , particularly at the end of the day . |
| 21 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 22 | But she did not seem to want to see it . ’ |
| 23 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 24 | The senator did not seem to want to say much more . |
| 25 | As they could no longer live in trees and needed the plants with which they had co-evolved in the more seasonal habitats in the beginnings of agriculture , at least vegeculture , those who did not cultivate had to trade . |
| 26 | He did not find learning to pray an easy occupation . |
| 27 | ‘ He , too , had suffered under Miss Angus 's overbearing rule when he was at school , and he did not mind trying to make her look foolish . |
| 28 | There are very few professional aircraft accident investigating officials who do not appreciate the broad scope of the coroner 's ( or procurator fiscal 's or magistrate 's ) responsibilities but it is remarkable how many coroners have very little idea of what the technical aircraft accident investigator is trying to do ; and it is even more surprising that many do not bother to try to find out , even when an aircraft accident occurs in their area of jurisdiction . |
| 29 | I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’ |
| 30 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |