Example sentences of "do [not/n't] particularly [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 2 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 3 | Yes , as I said previously , I did n't particularly want to go into the detail , because obviously as a member of P A G , Mrs , you 'll get an opportunity to see that particular detail . |
| 4 | It was a building he did n't particularly want to see , though he did n't imagine he could ever succeed in burying its memories and associations . |
| 5 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 6 | Still he could n't reply , his head too full of questions to which he did n't particularly want to know the answers . |
| 7 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't particularly want to think about it . ’ |
| 9 | So it , it wo n't suit everybody , you might not want , in my case I do n't particularly want to live with a burglar alarm . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes I know he wants me to do something and usually it 's something I do n't particularly want to do . |
| 11 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 12 | ‘ No , I do n't particularly want to see Napoleon myself , ’ I said . |
| 13 | I 've seen Anne and Nonnie and I do n't particularly want to see anybody else . |
| 14 | I do n't particularly want to go |
| 15 | no , I do n't particularly want to say |
| 16 | As I said , spring ninety four is gon na be the latest date for the site we want to start that phase as early as possible so that we can then get onto to the other phase as early as possible because we obviously do n't particularly want to wait until nineteen ninety five ninety six to , to finish the whole thing . |
| 17 | ‘ The point is I do n't particularly want to spend a whole evening in John 's company at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection . |
| 19 | Moreover we never look hard for what we do n't particularly want to find , and governments ’ revenues and manpower were so highly committed towards programmes of quantitative expansion ( particularly at secondary level ) and subsequently towards keeping the machine they had created running , that few people were prepared to question advice which suggested that a certain new activity could be safely ( and , hopefully , inexpensively ) tucked away at a centre or institute . |
| 20 | I think that 's a good enough reason , when I say I do n't particularly want to add anything else . |
| 21 | ‘ You can , ’ came the reply , ‘ there 's a spiral staircase inside , I gather , but the gamekeeper lives there now and I do n't particularly want to meet him . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't particularly want to know you . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't particularly want to get involved in anything like that |
| 24 | Well she said I 'd sort of thought of going , are you going , I says yeah okay I said , if you wo n't go I 'll , we 'll go together , I said but I do n't particularly want to get , you know , roped into it at the moment . |
| 25 | Er they do n't particularly like to make a , a noise , but some , some do if it 's quick . |