Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 2 | so , I know , I never ended up where I said I was going either cos erm I met this Rus Russian lady and her sister was with her as well and we were er , she advised me not to go to Russia for the time being because it will be over , she said there 's gon na be a lot of blood shed |
| 3 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 4 | Felicity Sieghart declared herself not dedicated to a career and therefore well qualified to address us . |
| 5 | She offered the apple to Adam — he took it not wishing to be rude |
| 6 | At once all sternness and hostility fell from him and , amusement lighting his dark eyes once more , ‘ I do know that , Fabia , ’ he drawled , adding , with pole-axing charm , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to . ’ |
| 7 | But , while there was a great urge in her to want to extend the dream of an evening , there was also that part of her that , for all Ven 's , ‘ I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to ’ and his ‘ What a charming companion you 've been ’ , caused her to push temptation away . |
| 8 | And as her heart turned over , so she again remembered his , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere did I not want to ’ of yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you not go to the feast ? ’ |
| 10 | Did you not respond to orders Richard Richard ? |
| 11 | Did you not have to be off the ground a wee bit or something . |
| 12 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
| 13 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 14 | But did it not occur to you , ’ Theda said , her breast heaving with the passion she was only just holding in check , ‘ that I have lately not been seen ? |
| 15 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 16 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 17 | ‘ And to think I might have sailed up it had I not chosen to be independent . |
| 18 | Had he not travelled to parts of Kurdistan where no white man had ever trod ? |
| 19 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 20 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 21 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |