Example sentences of "[noun] did not [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a hand pressed against the wall for support , and her hard tone and blunt words did n't fool Belinda into thinking she did n't care . |
| 2 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 3 | At the Angel Road rail bridge on the A406 the cost of remedial work is put at £1.2 million , partly because the department did not install water-proofing until 1983 , about 15 years after the problems were identified . |
| 4 | This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 . |
| 5 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 6 | Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong survival in oesophageal cancer . |
| 7 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 8 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |
| 9 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 10 | At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s . |
| 11 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 12 | All the nodes were manufactured and all but one was delivered ; however , the parties did not finalise agreement on the price or the terms to govern the contract and S retained the final node at its factory , pending agreement . |
| 13 | For the record , Stephanopoulos insisted the president did not pay £130 for the haircut because the president and his family have a personal service contract with the Beverly Hills hairdresser to the stars . |
| 14 | But Britain and the Austrian Habsburgs did not follow suit until 1742 , and France and Spain not until three years after that . |
| 15 | Councillors decided to uphold Mr Sprayson 's appeal because they said his action did n't put children in danger . |
| 16 | Early reconstructions of the temple placed these on square pedestals , but it is clear from the coins that the pedestals did not form part of the base of the columns . |
| 17 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 18 | The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so . |
| 19 | The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it . |
| 20 | Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations . |
| 21 | Richard did not accumulate objects for sentimental reasons . |
| 22 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 23 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 24 | Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved . |
| 25 | For many years the College did not provide pensions for members of staff , let alone dependents . |
| 26 | The court took the view that since the contract was formed at the reception desk , the notice in the bedroom did not form part of the contract , thus it could not be relied upon by the hotel as excluding liability . |
| 27 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 28 | The defendant did not commence proceedings against the appellant until 7 March 1988 . |
| 29 | It must not be exaggerated ; the growth of the United States was enormous , but even that giant 's stride did not deprive Europe of the economic leadership of the world by 1914 . |
| 30 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |