Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 2 | Ruth could not think what to say to him . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's had a lot of knocks in her life , although you might not think it to look at her , perhaps . |
| 4 | But it is tempting to suspect that one reason for Mr Major 's reluctance to shake out his cabinet is that he can not think who to put there instead . |
| 5 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 6 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 7 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 8 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 9 | I do not want him to return now . |
| 10 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 11 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 12 | And she did not want him to go . |
| 13 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 14 | He is conscious that his wife would not want him to let slide everything she worked so hard to achieve . |
| 15 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 16 | The touch of his hand on her body made her tremble , but she did not want him to stop . |
| 17 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 18 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 19 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 20 | While we would not want him to show his full negotiating hand at this stage , he gave us very little information . |
| 21 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 22 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 23 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 24 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 25 | Although she had half hoped he might guess , she did not want him to guess now , she thought frantically . |
| 26 | She hoped she did not sound too sarcastic , she did not want him to ring off . |
| 27 | I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work . |
| 28 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 29 | She did not want him to exercise his leg until the infected burn had healed completely . |
| 30 | There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated . |