Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , — One of your three pro-hunting correspondents who do not fancy having their names or addresses disclosed , objects to the showing of photographs of foxes dismembered by hounds , a sight that seriously disturbed her little daughter of six years old . |
| 2 | There is a high incidence among high earners , the unemployed , separated men , those with 10 or more partners , and people who did not enjoy losing their virginity . |
| 3 | A. Many horses simply do not like getting their feet wet ! |
| 4 | In his experience women did not like getting their feet wet and muddy , and were apt to have plenty to say on the subject . |
| 5 | But some of these young mothers did not like losing their figures , and also found the stretch marks particularly hard to deal with . |
| 6 | Children do not like having their behaviour recorded . |
| 7 | However , on the basis of the findings of this study Universities need not fear increasing their mature student intake . |
| 8 | One should also accept , however , that interpretation and evaluation are not objective statements about literary works , but statements about the interaction between works and their readers , because critics can not avoid imposing their own views and their own preferences on the texts with which they deal . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 10 | They seem to have difficulty in transferring from the junior to the senior game and get disheartened and take up coaching although it can be seen that British players do not start getting their best results until their mid-twenties and beyond . |
| 11 | But people do n't mind taking their own cup with them , do they ? |
| 12 | I do n't mind doing their housework if I do n't have to drink milk , but — ’ |
| 13 | That is the belief that teachers and children ‘ do n't like getting their hands dirty ’ . |
| 14 | Now you may have noticed that bullies do n't like having their faults pointed out to them , and so Herod had John locked up in prison . |
| 15 | Men did n't like having their moods ignored . |
| 16 | It sounds more like a yoga class , but Pierre 's technique has helped thousands of people who either could n't swim at all or just did n't like putting their head underwater . |
| 17 | The Italians ca n't resist festooning their tawny highlights with an assortment of rainbow-hued scrunchies , slides and combs and , while the Germans still favour no-nonsense crops , they are so emphatically topless that no-one cares . |
| 18 | I sha n't have wanting their quote anyway and then I decide . |