Example sentences of "[pron] did not [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 2 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 3 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 4 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 5 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 6 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 7 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 8 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 9 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 10 | Both Delaunay and Le Fauconnier , who did not exhibit at the Galerie de la Boétie either , were at this point on less friendly terms with the other members of the movement , and for this reason their works were not illustrated in Du Cubisme . |
| 11 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 12 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 13 | But we did not stop at the café . |
| 14 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 15 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 16 | But they did not stop at the analysis of the system of meanings , they used this analysis as a basis for recovering ‘ hidden ’ meanings — for interpreting what they were studying . |
| 17 | They did not know at the beginning of the week how much they would bring home at the end . |
| 18 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 19 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
| 20 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 21 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 22 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 23 | He did not look at the keys . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 25 | He did not look at the girl by his side , who was almost as tall as himself ; but he went on talking as she tapped her racquet against the netting . |
| 26 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said he did not look at the deal in terms of oil or gas production and reserves which would be acquired , but rather in terms of cash flow which could be generated for his company by rationalising operations of the two companies in parts of the US where they both have interests . |
| 27 | It did not arrive at the arena until almost 4 o'clock , by which time everyone was thoroughly soaked and miserable . |