Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Czech government does not want to see lots of companies go under because of a new bankruptcy law . |
| 2 | ‘ We do not want to do anything which would prematurely lever Mr Kinnock into Number 10 . |
| 3 | I do not want to do anything to jeopardise that process . |
| 4 | He said that he would impose a state of emergency if necessary , but did not want to do anything which would have a negative effect on democracy . |
| 5 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 6 | We are looking for something that will be effective and do not want to do anything hasty . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not want to put anyone else at risk — including you . ’ |
| 8 | I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama . |
| 9 | Mr. Wilson : I do not want to pre-empt anything that the Minister is going to say . |
| 10 | I would not want to mislead anyone into thinking that research is easy : it is hard and very time consuming work . |
| 11 | A criminal psychopath would not want to kick someone 's face in for the fun of it unless he had at least an inkling of what it feels like to the victim . |
| 12 | Even having a drawing or sketching program is n't the whole answer because , in many cases , the user will not want to draw something freehand but copy an existing image into the computer . |
| 13 | No , the Whip does not want to say something to me . |
| 14 | Until that becomes clear , we would not want to say anything more . ’ |
| 15 | There are other personalities involved and I do not want to hurt anybody . |
| 16 | In fact , the deeper you go into the struggle , the more you are liberated mentally , the more you do not want to have somebody cleaning your shoes , washing your clothes and so on . |
| 17 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 18 | If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator , keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag . |
| 19 | I do not want to embarrass anyone or to moralise , but I feel that this is an area in which modern Christians have been caught in the net of secularisation without realising it . |
| 20 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 21 | ‘ We would not want to encourage anybody not to buy a licence . ’ |
| 22 | I shall go to him to tell him that you want to speak to him personally and do not want to tell anybody else the reason . |
| 23 | I do not want to hear anything like that again . |
| 24 | She sensed she did not want to hear anything else . |
| 25 | There is also rambling thought in which the mind is not pressed to solve anything and merely rambles aimlessly . |
| 26 | This fact is not intended to hurt anyone 's feelings , and still less , dear reader , to cast any aspersions on your honesty and integrity . |
| 27 | Waller added that he had not intended to stab anyone , the jury heard . |
| 28 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 29 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 30 | The rest of them wriggled down in their seats , not wanting to be seen , not daring to say anything . |