Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time , you old gypsy man , Will you not stay Put up your caravan Just for one day ? |
| 2 | Many commentaries without such an explicit and analytical statement , bewail the lack of political will , expertise or rational planning , without offering any explanation as to why these qualities frequently do not exist to carry out effective conservation . |
| 3 | As for the medical practitioner before the discovery of antibiotics , what did not exist did not have to be taken into account . |
| 4 | ‘ Not proven does not mean the same as not guilty or totally exonerated , ’ he said . |
| 5 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 6 | Our minds are so full of the ‘ pre-packaged ’ message that we have not stopped to think how it relates to those for whom it is intended . |
| 7 | Demand a banker 's draft or real cash by return mail or personal delivery and then , if this is not received do n't hesitate , commence immediate legal proceedings . |
| 8 | NEW office development in the centre of Darlington will not make parking more difficult , a planning officer has said . |
| 9 | Residents of the Morfa flats are saying they do not want to live here ever again . ’ |
| 10 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 11 | Some soldiers had said that when the war was over they did not want to take up Party work any longer : ‘ Many of them think that they have done enough through their service at the Front or also behind the front-lines , and point to those of similar age or younger who were not soldiers . ’ |
| 12 | Customers may not want to take up the credit on offer . |
| 13 | In that case the union had negotiated a favourable package for those employees whom the transferee did not want to take on and who , it was agreed , should remain with the transferor . |
| 14 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |
| 15 | I do not want to take too long , but I should like to refer to some of the points made by the Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) . |
| 16 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 17 | Lord Mayor , clearly that is what the Tories do not want to happen in . |
| 18 | Mr Mieno does not want to let up until he is sure the job is done . |
| 19 | She said ; I would not want to go up there . |
| 20 | She said ; I would not want to go up there in this wind . |
| 21 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |
| 22 | We should not want to go slower than 1/200th second because of camera movement and , for a bright day , f8 at 1/200th with ASA 200 rated film will give a result . |
| 23 | I do not want to go over that ground again ; suffice it to say that we accept the Secretary of State 's assurance that the Government are making a genuine effort to find a mechanism to implement Lord Cullen 's recommendation 30 . |
| 24 | ‘ The Bravoes may not want to go around asking questions , they 'll probably just stake out her house . |
| 25 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend mean that British industrialists do not want to go back to national plans , solemn and binding undertakings , high inflation , nationalisation , high taxation and trade union unrest ? |
| 27 | Industrialists know that that policy was a failure , and they do not want to go back to it . |
| 28 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 29 | She said she had liked her flat but would not want to go back there . |
| 30 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |