Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thwaites obviously did not subscribe to this tradition ( after all , they were not even considered Baldersdalians ! ) since John met his future bride when she was fifteen and in service at a farm in Lunedale . |
| 2 | In most cases the text in the columns wo n't line up which indicates that the person who put it together did n't know about this little trick . |
| 3 | Tyler Blacklock had little interest in the millinery world , for he hardly ever wore a hat and so did not move in such circles ; neither had he made enquiries with regard to Beth or her husband . |
| 4 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 5 | They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean . |
| 6 | Well no I just did n't want to that was that . |
| 7 | was conversation , we just did n't talk at all |
| 8 | A part of the myth just did n't work after that . ’ |
| 9 | Well I think that er , you know , just did n't happen like that though , except things like that in one way and . |
| 10 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 11 | In Wings v. Ellis the defendant mysteriously did not rely upon any such defence . |
| 12 | I met , now my husband , and although we liked to go out to dinner together , I still did n't put on any weight . |
| 13 | Gedanken still did not look at all happy . |
| 14 | Of course , ‘ Ununited ’ is grammatically incorrect , but they probably did n't want to dis the place . |
| 15 | Well , she probably did n't look at all ! |
| 16 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 17 | Corporate America had decided the IBM was the machine to follow and the Macintosh , whatever its advantages , simply did n't fit into this scheme . |
| 18 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 19 | The fact that it sometimes did not work after that operation was incidental . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted something that was melodic but yet did n't sound like any conventional grouping of instruments . |
| 21 | In my case , it evidently did n't belong to this life at all . |
| 22 | What else they saw in and near the city they did not record , but it evidently did not include on this occasion the famous caverns at Wookey Hole . |
| 23 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 24 | When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead . |
| 25 | The terminologies which demonstrated the existence of this stage , again did not come from those people who were believed to practise the associated form of marriage . |
| 26 | Between 1941 and 1945 it created a following for itself which has never been equalled since and certainly did not exist at any time prior to 1941 . |
| 27 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 28 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |
| 29 | And Grandmother certainly did n't indulge in that ! |
| 30 | I kept thinking like did you definitely did n't talk in that exam ? |