Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
2 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
3 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
4 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
5 | Similarly Mr. Pope , who was looking after his wife , said he did not want her to be anywhere else but at home : |
6 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
7 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
8 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
9 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
10 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
11 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
12 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
13 | I think it 's I 'm not convinced about it because I think there 's s some people would , do n't , will not want it to be , to be involved in violence I , I would n't think . |
14 | She does not want you to be tried by the government . ’ |
15 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
16 | I was very fond of these , and often wondered as a child why people did not consider them to be art . |
17 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
18 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
19 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
20 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
21 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
22 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
23 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
24 | He had not expected it to be so beautiful . |
25 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
26 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
27 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
28 | I could not expect her to be bridesmaid . |
29 | She did not expect him to be ‘ faithful ’ , but he was . |
30 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |