Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | NEW office development in the centre of Darlington will not make parking more difficult , a planning officer has said . |
| 3 | Residents of the Morfa flats are saying they do not want to live here ever again . ’ |
| 4 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 5 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It struck Hoomey then that Nails did not want to go home , even — possibly — that he wanted company . |
| 11 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 12 | You may not want to go further in your job — perhaps the status you have in your social and personal life may prove sufficient . |
| 13 | Difficulty will also arise where the eleven wish to amend existing Directives in accordance with the policies of the Protocol and Agreement and the UK does not want to do so . |
| 14 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 15 | If it could be avoided , Yggdrasil did not want to spend too much time on the Princetown Input . |
| 16 | Blinds on their own can fit any atmosphere , particularly if windows are awkward , small or you did not want to lose too much light . |
| 17 | Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call . |
| 18 | It was then , though , that she realised that , having wanted to come to London , having made the break from Hazelbury — as lovely as Hazelbury was — she did not want to return there unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 19 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 20 | The seller may be entirely happy with the position or , as we began this discussion by assuming , he may decide that he does not want to hold so much wealth in the form of money . |
| 21 | Well , he did not want to give away too much ground at the start . |
| 22 | This has resulted in a great deal of mutual education , and most would not want to worship together any more regularly than that ! |
| 23 | If the key person identified for the transfer does not want to move there will probably be a number of career-hungry individuals on the payroll who will willingly step into the vacant position . |
| 24 | She was the tenant of the flat and did not want to move so the daughter and her husband had no rights to that accommodation . |
| 25 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 26 | She just did not want to leave here . |
| 27 | Unlike many of my friends , I did not want to leave home . |
| 28 | He then said playing wise he does not want to play anywhere else but at Leeds for the rest of his career , said that Elland Rd was the best arena for a footballer bacuase the atmosphere is so special . |
| 29 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 30 | He does not want to fade away from the scene . |