Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all . |
| 2 | My index finger was sleeved in frost and I dared not bend it for fear of splitting the skin . |
| 3 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 4 | Wherever she went , there would always be the knowledge deep within her that she loved Rourke , and that he did not love her in return . |
| 5 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 6 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 7 | A fourth option I did not mention it in Committee is to sell the property separately but arrange for it to be leased to the bus operating company . |
| 8 | Her ill health did not prevent her from painting , from being politically active in the communist movement nor from leading a rich life . |
| 9 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 10 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 11 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 12 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 13 | Although the Chicago School made passing reference to Freud 's work in discussing the biotic level , it did not explore it in detail , perhaps because it was not fully available in English during the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 14 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 15 | At least in the youth game the referee has a very clear directive as to who should be awarded the put-in ; the side who did not take it into ruck or maul . |
| 16 | The book goes on to quote Stephen Jay Gould , the noted Harvard palaeontologist , as saying : We avoid the excellent question , What good is 5 percent of an eye ? by arguing that the possessor of such an incipient structure did not use it for sight . |
| 17 | He did not recognise it as hope . |
| 18 | For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line . |
| 19 | He did not keep her in suspense . |
| 20 | Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing . |
| 21 | In Bateman itself the accused took part of the victim 's uterus away during childbirth and did not remove her to hospital for five days . |
| 22 | Tour operators were cutting their allocations on planes and in hotels but even this did not save them from bankruptcy . |
| 23 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 24 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 25 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 26 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 27 | Did I wear it over Chris , I did n't wear it at Christmas time did I ? |
| 28 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 29 | She did n't do it on purpose , it 's her new chariot . |
| 30 | Mind you , I think we 've managed to avoid that self-conscious ‘ world beat ’ kind of feel , because we did n't do it on purpose — it was all an accident ! |