Example sentences of "do not [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 2 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 3 | So when you break in a house you do n't , you do n't want to be heard you do n't want to be seen . |
| 4 | And when she straightened up and went to take the key from the lock his hand was there before hers , and as he handed the key back to her , he said on a laugh , ‘ I see you do n't intend to be locked in from the outside . ’ |
| 5 | But the Guild 's now you see erm do n't seem to be they 're not , not at all as active , its , its quite honest . |
| 6 | Well that 's the best thing , yo you should n't er you do n't have to be aware . |
| 7 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 8 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 9 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 10 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 11 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 12 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 13 | He did not want to be small . |
| 14 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 15 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 16 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 17 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 18 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 19 | She did not want to be rude to him . |
| 20 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 21 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 22 | Dupea did not want to be tied down by anything or anyone — which seemed Nicholson 's own philosophy — and he wanted above all to keep on the move . |
| 23 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 24 | She did not want to be evil with Ryan either , but fortunately , Ryan understood all that . |
| 25 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 26 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 27 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 28 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 29 | He had locked himself in as he did not want to be disturbed by Emily . |
| 30 | He did not want to be around when they told him ; he had enough to do without becoming involved in a domestic squabble . |