Example sentences of "did not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 2 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 3 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 4 | Providing copious statistics for the numbers of bombers dispatched , those that reached their targets and those that did not for one reason or another , this book is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany . |
| 5 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 6 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 7 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 8 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 9 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 10 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 11 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 12 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 13 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 14 | Or I 'd make sure he did n't for much longer . ’ |
| 15 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 16 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |