Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Doc , I do normally but I did n't over the weekend . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 4 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I did n't as a matter of fact . |
| 7 | I had an engagement in town that morning so I did n't post the letter . |
| 8 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 9 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 10 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 11 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 12 | The classical way Agatha Christie ( who did not on the whole write humorous crime stories ) managed this often will give you an idea of what to aim for . |
| 13 | Medieval society also contained a large and growing number of professional warriors and churchmen , ‘ those who fought and those who prayed ’ , who did not till the soil , or engage in any normal form of economic activity . |
| 14 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 15 | ( Nevertheless , there were some interesting differences between the group who felt that they had a ‘ training officer ’ and those who did not amongst the CRUS sample , further discussed in Chapter 5 . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 're too feisty and she did n't in the end , did n't she ? |
| 18 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 19 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 20 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 21 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
| 22 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 23 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 24 | They did n't in the end not because Kevin Keegan refreshed parts Ossie Ardiles could n't reach but because their players were too good . |
| 25 | In their dinner jackets , glasses of brandy in their hands , they appeared not unlike an uncle and his nephew in their London club — not much to say to each other , but quite content . |
| 26 | ‘ He came not as a senator , ’ said Mr Donlan , on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme . |
| 27 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 28 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 29 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 30 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |