Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] did n't [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 2 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm not really ans answering the question but I I did n't really want to get on to that one it 's just |
| 4 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
| 6 | ‘ There was someone I did n't actually see . |
| 7 | but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know , |
| 8 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 9 | I lost , of course , hardly surprising since the elections were carved up by the various political groups , most of which I did n't even know existed . |
| 10 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 11 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |
| 12 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 13 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 14 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 15 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 16 | Still he could n't reply , his head too full of questions to which he did n't particularly want to know the answers . |
| 17 | He ended by writing twenty-five pages , some of which he read to Elinor late one night , There were also two longish poems in free verse , which he did n't yet feel quite ready to expose to the world . |
| 18 | He looked tired , which he did n't usually do . |
| 19 | Even though she once told me she did n't really care much for men , she said it was fun to see the way they reacted to her . |
| 20 | But I think she was like me she did n't really want to get rid of her baby . |
| 21 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 22 | , no she did , she I did n't even say who I was , she just knew the way I spoke she said you 're from T N T are n't you ? |
| 23 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 24 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 25 | If she waited much longer , she would be late at the shop , and as there was a good chance Lisa would be alone that was something she did n't really want to risk . |
| 26 | Erm we washed the car in today , we we did n't actually go shopping , no . |
| 27 | We we did n't actually get through all the arrangements question , erm , J John a are you w there was some ce uncertainty as to whether or not you were going to be able to bring your adaptable piano ? |
| 28 | Had they all in fact something to escape from , perhaps something they did n't even acknowledge to themselves ? |
| 29 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |
| 30 | She swallowed the hurt and told herself he did n't really mean it . |