Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 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 . |
| 9 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 10 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 11 | So , with her thoughts intent upon her programme for the day , she did not immediately connect the two names . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On this occasion she did not even pronounce the name ‘ Vietnam ’ . |
| 14 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her lawyer said she did not then know the consequences of the accident . |
| 20 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 21 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 22 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 23 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 24 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 25 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 26 | Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing . |
| 27 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 28 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 29 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 30 | Like disrespectful underlings , they did not adequately acknowledge the dominion of their superiors . |