Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert .
2 She was sitting with her back to him , and did not turn round even though she must have heard the sound of horse 's hooves on the hard pebbled path behind her .
3 He was internationally minded ; he believed in concord between nations , and so ardently that he did not question over much whether concord between nations actually existed . ’
4 All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock .
5 This did n't go down quite as well .
6 I did n't go out again until Ken stormed in and said he 'd found Nicola . ’
7 ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera .
8 I was exp it 's amazing the neighbours did n't come round actually cos we was n't exactly quiet was we ?
9 Evidently the carrier landings did n't work out well as those operations and their filming was quickly terminated .
10 I even tried window-cleaning , but that did n't work out even though I was outside .
11 The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to …
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