Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole .
2 David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole .
3 They would be dangerously close to having style over content if the songs were n't so good , and if singer Valerie Etienne did n't have such a heaven-sent voice .
4 Richard Burbage did n't like that .
5 Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed .
6 For some unaccountable reason she had bent down to inspect the floor , hoping , though Dr Neil did not know this , to escape the attentions of Havvie and his friends , all of whom had known her well in her old life .
7 Dr Bhatiani said Dr Almahawi did not undertake any surgery with the practice and Department of Health guidelines on doctors with HIV were followed fully .
8 In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling .
9 Tall , gangly Frank Hegarty did n't need any mythical father 's picture any more .
10 He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things .
11 ‘ Because Kurt Steiner did n't die that night on the terrace at Meltham House , Mr Higgins . ’
12 Alexander 's teacher Aristotle did not share this liking for priests , but his scientific curiosity which was truly universal extended to the wisdom of the East .
13 What was obvious , though , straightaway was that Mr Carver did n't talk much and his greeting of Mick was as to one of the family , indicated with a nod and a ‘ Hello , there ! ’
14 Mr Aycliffe did not answer this .
15 And now she knew that Uncle Knacker did n't know any more than she did , and she was on her own because her parents could n't afford expensive lessons or a top-class pony .
16 But Mr Craven did not know this .
17 Mr Yeltsin did not win enough votes to enable him to call a new parliamentary election constitutionally .
18 I often asked Malcolm why Mr Hutton did n't get another secretary .
19 I 'm pleased to note that Mr Anson did not follow this well-worn , easy route .
20 Mr Wolski did not understand this , but he always smiled when someone in authority smiled and he smiled now .
21 SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure .
22 Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics .
23 Mrs Goreng did n't miss this .
24 Mrs Maugham did not like this either , on the principle that it was neither use nor ornament .
25 G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 .
26 It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less .
27 Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson .
28 5 FUTURE TEACHER TRAINING COURSE The potential teachers day held at Potters Bar did not generate enough local interest to become viable although several people from a wide variety of locations are showing interest — .
29 Glenn Waggoner did not know this .
30 After their early opportunity Holland did not glimpse another scoring chance until eight minutes before half-time , when Kieft and Koeman combined to set up Berghuis for a hard , low cross which Taffarel could not hold .
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