Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 2 | Sets of spaces found not to conform to their specified relationships can be redefined or repositioned in order to reestablish those relationships . |
| 3 | She tried not to lie to the child , as she had been lied to . |
| 4 | She tried not to listen to Mr Skinner . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 6 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 7 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 8 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 9 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 10 | He 's been stopped and told not to write to us . |
| 11 | She thought he imagined he looked smart , but the clothes seemed not to belong to him , as though he were dressing up . |
| 12 | I learnt not to talk to strangers and I thought it was funny . |
| 13 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 14 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 15 | But he was a tough boy and he determined not to go to pieces . |
| 16 | I refer to my memorandum dated 19 September 1990 which informed you that the Personnel Committee , at its meeting on 11 September 1990 , decided not to agree to a closure of Regional Council workplaces during the 1990/91 festive season . |
| 17 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 18 | He decided not to go to a chain chemist 's . |
| 19 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 20 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 21 | ‘ I decided not to go to my room after all . |
| 22 | And then we decided not to go to the Hanover Fair , so change the specification so that it could be a a versatile sort of display for whatever we wanted to display . |
| 23 | At the end of March , however , An Taisce , Cork , decided not to object to the granting of planning permission . |
| 24 | ‘ Then all your family worries descended on your lovely shoulders and I decided not to add to that burden . |
| 25 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 26 | I decided not to rise to the bait . |
| 27 | The PCCh and the MIR on Jan. 27 , 1990 , undertook not to resort to violence during the term of office of the Aylwin administration . |
| 28 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 29 | Some of the anthropologists chose not to refer to their ethnographic experience but to address more general issues of methodology and definition ( Carrithers , Campbell , Heelas ) , but the majority of the papers are embedded in the particularity of an ethnographic setting . |
| 30 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |