Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] did not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 2 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 3 | A dame I did n't even know . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What , for instance , is the relation between ‘ Frenchness ’ and francophonie ( a term which did not even exist until recently — it is first recorded in 1959 ) . |
| 6 | The creation of a futures market will attract investors to trade the future who did not already trade the spot ( Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | Nothing criminal , of course ; even in her present slightly illogical and decidedly vengeful frame of mind she did n't seriously suspect Count Romano de Sciorto of criminal activity . |
| 8 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 9 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 10 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 11 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 12 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 13 | He was dressed in white : white shorts , a white T-shirt which did not quite cover an enormous stomach , and a white floppy hat with a white handkerchief covering the back of his neck . |
| 14 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 15 | In more recent times and in a case which did not strictly involve an employee , Lord Diplock said that the real concern of the courts was simply to ask whether the party with the greater bargaining power had exacted an unfairly onerous benefit ( Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 616 ) . |
| 16 | And I can't — I can't-for a length of brown satin I did n't even steal . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Constance said , ‘ It 's a pity you did n't really know Nora . |
| 21 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 22 | After a few months of this kind of thing , it was a wonder we did n't automatically walk out of our homes every hour , on the hour , when we were on leave , to look at the weather . |
| 23 | they used to pour it out of a can you know , it 's a wonder we did n't all die of tuberculosis but we did n't . |
| 24 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 25 | Much , much better to have the sincere words of a family friend than some vicar who did n't really know Donald . |
| 26 | Constance asked , clinging briefly to a hope she did not really believe in . |
| 27 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 28 | And , you know , the queue 'd be all down the stairs and all down the road and to be truthful as a , as , as erm I , in my early married days of course erm I , my money accumulated er because of sort I did n't really need it . |
| 29 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 30 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |