Example sentences of "do not [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 2 | Their direct-action tactics did not aim at involving large numbers of people in militant action ; they were propaganda stunts designed to attract an audience . |
| 3 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 4 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 5 | His mother kept poking toys which she did not want at her . |
| 6 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 7 | The term ‘ ecology ’ could be used as an umbrella to cover a wide range of research traditions that did not interact at the detailed level , but which could be seen to deal with one aspect or another of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 8 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 9 | There was absolutely no way of getting from Wandsworth to Wanley except by car , or none that did not involve at least four methods of public transport . |
| 10 | In answer , Aggie did not bawl at her but said quietly , ‘ Come here , love . |
| 11 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 12 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 13 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . |
| 14 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . ’ |
| 15 | But Reagan did not appear at North 's trial , much as North and his lawyers tried ; he did not appear until Poindexter 's , in the spring of 1990 . |
| 16 | Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site . |
| 17 | Adam did not appear at dinner . |
| 18 | He told hospital matron Elizabeth Proffitt and when Mrs Mawdsley did not appear at work the following Monday , she asked their head office for advice . |
| 19 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 20 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 21 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 22 | What he did not realise at that stage was that it was meaningless to compare Baldwin 's speed with that of Bonar Law , for Baldwin did not work at all in Law 's sense . |
| 23 | She went in , and because her eyes were on ceilings and walls did not realise at once they were , after all , there , two low huddling mounds , under blankets , shawls and all kinds of bits and pieces of stuffs , mostly flowered . |
| 24 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 25 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
| 26 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 27 | Compulsory admission occurred where the doctor ascribed the sick role but the patient did not accept it or did not react at all . |
| 28 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 29 | It did not arrive at the arena until almost 4 o'clock , by which time everyone was thoroughly soaked and miserable . |
| 30 | Why , when the King did not arrive at Kinghorn , did Queen Yolande not send out a search-party ? |