Example sentences of "did not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 2 | A Halifax Building Society survey found most elderly people with financial difficulties did not resort to credit as a panacea — ‘ their generation does not approve of credit . ’ |
| 3 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 4 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 5 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 6 | João did not cue himself in . |
| 7 | I did not farad to . |
| 8 | They did not part until four a.m . |
| 9 | We did not film it and that is something which even now makes me feel completely frustrated . |
| 10 | She pushed the dress back into the running water of the stream above the basin , where the soap did not film the water , and mourned the disappearance of his sweet milk ; his pleasure had frightened her , it was true , at first when he did not speak and did not ask or explain . |
| 11 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 12 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 13 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 14 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 15 | The truce with Scotland , renewed in 1323 , reduced the need to levy taxes , and opposition was so cowed that , as the Vita commented , it did not surface even when parliament was called : ‘ Parliaments , colloquia and councils decide nothing these days . |
| 16 | She hoped he spoke English as well as he wrote it and she hoped too that his slightly censorious tone did not surface as he met her in Paris . |
| 17 | She recognized the stone for what it was , but the thought did not engage her , did not surface . |
| 18 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 19 | ‘ In the second test the steel reinforcement buckled , but the building did not pancake , ’ Bertero said . |
| 20 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 21 | Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign . |
| 22 | The salary of the post to which the unlucky Mr Achterlonie aspired was a mere twenty pounds per annum , but Montrose did not disdain it , conscious that ‘ triffling as such a post is it may effectuallie oblidge some body who may be reddie to repay such a favor upon ane other occasion ’ . |
| 23 | Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli . |
| 24 | Even Wilbye did not disdain specific Italian models ; his ‘ Lady , your words do spite me ’ takes off from Ferrabosco 's ‘ Donna se voi m'odiate ’ which had appeared in Musica Transalpina as ‘ Lady , if you so spite me ’ : and once more the English monosyllables leave their stamp on the music . |
| 25 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 26 | His results showed that children below the age of seven years did not structure their stories or explanations coherently , nor did they keep in mind the extent of the listener 's ignorance . |
| 27 | Although in 1978–9 Libyans could time in to Cairo 's radio broadcasts to hear abuse of their leader , Libya 's news services did not air the quarrels with neighbours . |
| 28 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 29 | Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well . |
| 30 | As they walked uphill from the spa , beneath the shade of chestnut trees and beside a crystal-clear stream , Thomas did not flag . |