Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] did [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether it 's circumstantial , or maybe did n't actually send it . |
| 2 | In practice , that rarely happened because , they said , people from Awlad Amira and from Jlulat were travelling in a vast area and so did not often meet ; and because , knowing that all Jlulat would unite , Amira refrained from attack , and vice versa . |
| 3 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 4 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 5 | The gardener Thomas Knowlton was more of a plantsman and obviously did not really enjoy digging the lakes or ‘ canals ’ as he called them . |
| 6 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |
| 7 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 8 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 9 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 10 | They paid the Greeks to teach them their wisdom and often did not even have to pay because they were their slaves . |
| 11 | Presumably not the minor detail that young Anne was a designing little minx who married Henry in cold blood to further her own ambitions — and then did n't even have the sense or decency to stand by her bargain . ’ |
| 12 | Several historians for instance have challenged Shorter 's notion of the emancipating effect of women 's work and have shown that even during industrialisation , it was performed in the context of the family economy and therefore did not necessarily free women from the control of either their families or traditional values . |
| 13 | The feeling of structural security about flying in strutted and braced aircraft was very comforting but unfortunately did not always extend to the engines with which they were fitted . |