Example sentences of "not [vb infin] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 2 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
| 3 | That there is something he does not know is shown by the fact that if he were to gain his sight , he would come to know something that he previously had not known . |
| 4 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 5 | The plea to spread a message that the bombers will not succeed was made by the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , Councillor Malachi Curran at a dinner in Newcastle last night . |
| 6 | And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction . |
| 7 | He will not compromise to get an agreement he does not believe is justified and is not the least put out by demonstrations . |
| 8 | I would not mind being trained , and I am not afraid of hard work . ’ |
| 9 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 10 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 11 | She did not like being touched , not ever ! |
| 12 | ‘ She was very proud of her success , not guilty , and did not like being made to feel so , ’ one friend explained . |
| 13 | An extension of this is that people do not like being insulted . |
| 14 | I do not like being forced to this conclusion . |
| 15 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 16 | She had a very jolly time in Korea and she does not like being photographed by the Press . |
| 17 | People do not like being photographed on their way to or from work . |
| 18 | ‘ They do not like being deceived , the Soldier-folk . |
| 19 | He had very few spare clothes and did not like being found out . |
| 20 | Maisie , like Henry , did not like being lifted . |
| 21 | They like being flattered , or congratulated , or encouraged : they certainly do not like being put down . |
| 22 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 23 | Owen did not like being reminded that he was , so far as police work was concerned , an amateur . |
| 24 | At the same time , socialists do not like being reminded of their own dismal record when in government a long time ago . |
| 25 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 26 | Lewis did not like being corrected but he had to take it , and with a smile . |
| 27 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 28 | Situations in which translation did not occur are accounted for . |
| 29 | A policy that could not work was presented as one that could , and a scheme that stood American policy on its head was elaborately argued to be otherwise . |
| 30 | ‘ But do you not fear being infected by one of the foreign staff here , sir ? ’ |