Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] to " 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 am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To punish me because he can see I do n't want to ? |
| 7 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | What 's he He do n't need to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well that 's the best thing , yo you should n't er you do n't have to be aware . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Du n no to be honest . |
| 14 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 17 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 18 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I did not want to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 22 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 23 | He did not want to be small . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 26 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 29 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 30 | She did not want to be rude to him . |