Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Just at this moment d'Alembord did not care how late they would be .
2 Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking .
3 In 1985 Mr Vaughan did not agree to become a joint tenant of the flat with Mr Cook or anybody else …
4 For the next few days Shelley did n't catch even a glimpse of her chief .
5 ‘ And this Mrs Fanshawe does n't know ? ’
6 It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea .
7 In this respect Lenin did not underestimate the importance of creating the political preconditions for the control of bureaucratic structures , a failing of which he is accused by Erick Olin Wright ( 1978 ) .
8 Fifty two year old Agnes Smith does n't need to lose anything like that amount , but as part of our search for a healthy lifestyle she 's agreed to try this form of group therapy .
9 This time Radford did not let her chance slip away and she clinched the biggest victory of her career so far .
10 This time Wilcox did not miss her irony .
11 This time Ronni did n't hesitate .
12 This time Pooley did n't resurrect his old accent .
13 This time Lacuna did n't scream an abusive reply .
14 A fresh blast of heavy rain hit the windowpanes , but this time Leith did n't hear it .
15 But this time Louise did not betray any signs of dismay .
16 Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on .
17 One of Darwin 's big problems and to some extent Darwin did n't know about genetics .
18 In order to accommodate this fact Freud did not abandon the idea that all dreams were wish-fulfilments , but hypothesized a mechanism , the dreamwork , whereby dreams were censored .
19 The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out .
20 Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ .
21 That winter Maggie did not nourish .
22 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 .
23 The Athenian Acropolis , defensible , symbolically overbearing , and provided with its own water supply , goes far to explain why Dark Age Attica did not remain like Keos or Euboia , a coalition of small states .
24 Moral authority Cameron did not disregard or despise , but he was more concerned with its educative than with its binding power .
25 But Premier John Major did not receive a single vote .
26 ‘ Ah , but I am not a pretty young skivvy , ’ said Dr Neil wickedly , ‘ and dear Mr Sands does not wish to see me walk through the door .
27 That evening Leon did n't follow me into the morning room to sit in the armchair opposite mine , slipped deep into it , his elbows on the arms , fingers linked in front of his face .
28 In the UK the National Farmers Union do not want BST , and neither do the public .
29 Although it was the men of Kent and the other home counties who took leading parts Sussex did not escape .
30 All that day Rose did not come back , nor was there any message .
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