Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 2 | You 'll not ketch me complaining about my lot |
| 3 | She said she did not want him staring at her , she wanted a bit of her life to herself ; without having to share it with Randolph Ash . |
| 4 | I do NOT want him going to some — |
| 5 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 6 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 7 | They connected him up , but there was nowhere to hang the bag of saline solution , and they did not want someone blocking the aisle holding it . |
| 8 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 9 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Roman would not want you going there . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you were my daughter , I would not want you soiling your hands with this lot . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it was clear that the wisest Cambridge leaders whom he could consult would not regard his going as betrayal if he felt it right . |
| 14 | Although this is so , it does not trouble anyone surveying a piece of land . |
| 15 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 16 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 17 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 18 | This did not prevent him joining the revolt of Henry , third Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , against the corrupt government of Queen Isabella [ q.v. ] and Roger Mortimer , first Earl of March [ q.v. ] , in 1328 . |
| 19 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 20 | This did not prevent him falling off his chair and being sick on the Japanese premier at a state dinner in Japan earlier this year , an embarrassing incident captured by the TV cameras . |
| 21 | I can not prevent him going forth , but am ever relieved when he has returned . |
| 22 | The rule of law is the benchmark by which the Library Association directs the profession on matters of censorship , but that need not prevent its challenging the concept of legalized censorship . |
| 23 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 24 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 25 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 26 | A BBC spokesman said the BSkyB deal will not prevent them continuing their live coverage of the final two days of both the US Open and US PGA would continue . |
| 27 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 28 | This idiosyncratic view of local democracy does not prevent her finishing the board with a pass , and the recommendation to Central Office that she ‘ would make the perfect candidate for a safe Labour seat in the Northeast . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There are some suggestions I made for changes but this would not prevent me signing it . |
| 30 | Hope could not prevent himself blurting out . |