Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 2 | It worked or it did not work . |
| 3 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He shaved but he did not wash and his bright , shallow smile was like the contentment of a piglet fresh from the teat . |
| 5 | They all fixed in a pure tenseness of watching as he shaved but he did not cut himself . |
| 6 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 7 | ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . ) |
| 8 | Now he did and they did not seem absurd , they seemed like good reasons . |
| 9 | She said there had but she did not know how close to where she was picked up . |