Example sentences of "not [verb] do [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I beat a heavy retreat : what I did not want to do was find out what the locals were like . |
| 2 | What Soviet aid , the first consignments of which began to reach Spain in October 1936 , was emphatically not intended to do was advance the cause of social revolution in Republican Spain . |
| 3 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 4 | The one thing I am not going to do is look remotely fazed or ruffled . |
| 5 | All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting . |
| 6 | ‘ What we can not afford to do is to sacrifice our core investment programme in Chemicals which is so important to the long-term future . ’ |
| 7 | What you do n't want to do is run up an overdraft in the hope no one will notice . |
| 8 | Er I what I do n't want to do is to prompt him into |
| 9 | What he would n't have done is gone out and bought the girl loads of flowers the next morning and then get caught by me doing it . |