Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He either failed or did n't take his finals ; I could n't make out which . ’ |
| 2 | But he added that did n't mean it might not affect others and that 's what worried him . |
| 3 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 4 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 5 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 6 | Mr B ( who knows Mr A has hearing problems ) replied but did not use his voice at all . |
| 7 | She flinched but did n't move her arm away and the wash of colour behind her clenched eyelids shifted a tone or two down the fifth arc of the spectrum . |
| 8 | In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace . |
| 9 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 10 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 11 | also said that when that person , if she married somebody , say fifty years older than her , that they died and did n't leave her to pay . |
| 12 | Dalziel laughed but did n't turn his eyes to the speaker . |
| 13 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 14 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 15 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |
| 16 | he said but do n't wait he said I 've only got you to blame and he did |
| 17 | Cold water sluiced but did not cool him . |