Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 3 | So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message . |
| 4 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 5 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 6 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 7 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 8 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 9 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ Then nothing to suggest that — granted he walked in of his own will — he did n't walk out the same way ? ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps the producer hurried the film prematurely into production , or the director did n't carry out the necessary preparation . |
| 12 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Cinderella 's coach did n't turn up the second time around ? ’ |
| 14 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 15 | Erm I did n't write down the other things that you mentioned as we were going through that were n't on this list . |
| 16 | She did n't take out the folded sheet . |
| 17 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 18 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 19 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 20 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |