Example sentences of "[pron] did not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 3 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 4 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 5 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 6 | I did not entirely follow the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 7 | I did not fully appreciate the extent of their regard until her declining years when the numerous and persistent inquiries about her health , the genuine regrets , the reminiscences of old times , revealed the strength of feeling and loyalty . |
| 8 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 9 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 10 | The Euratom countries , which did not then include the United Kingdom , began a cooperative programme of research . |
| 11 | A third point of criticism concerns Chomsky 's declaration that the child was exposed to ‘ degenerate ’ examples of language which did not accurately reflect the underlying rules of grammar . |
| 12 | This was a somewhat idealised view which did not truly reflect the political reality in England at the time . |
| 13 | Now , the emphasis is on pay agreements that will meet the specific needs of the civil service and of the executive agencies throughout the country , rather than on maintaining an unnecessarily rigid or uniform structure — a structure which did not necessarily produce the best results in the past . |
| 14 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 15 | One of the teachers there was her aunt Nuala O'Connor who did not immediately realise the quiet , intense girl was a relative . |
| 16 | He despised the rural ignoramuses who did not even know the system . |
| 17 | The creation of a futures market will attract investors to trade the future who did not already trade the spot ( Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 18 | Kenneth Clarke , who did not quite take the country by storm during the election , as predicted , has nonetheless been rewarded with one of the great offices of state : the Home Office . |
| 19 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 20 | In the morning Miss Honey said to them , ‘ One or two of you did not particularly enjoy the last occasion when the Headmistress took the class , so let us all try to be especially careful and clever today . |
| 21 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 22 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 23 | So , with her thoughts intent upon her programme for the day , she did not immediately connect the two names . |
| 24 | She did not even mention the military involvement in the rebellion or the officer widely believed to have led it , the cashiered Colonel Gregorio Honasan . |
| 25 | On this occasion she did not even pronounce the name ‘ Vietnam ’ . |
| 26 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 27 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 28 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 29 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 30 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |