Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves .
2 His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) .
3 She certainly did not blend it with the crowd .
4 Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation .
5 It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect .
6 The work of Piaget ( 1950 ) and Chomsky ( 1957 ) is essentially about thinking and language or psycholinguistics , but these authors did not concern themselves with the level of problem which arises when , for example , a physiologist and a psychologist attempt to exchange mutually supportive ideas .
7 He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization .
8 Generally , though , I did not concern myself with a batsman 's standing .
9 I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required .
10 Did n't do it with the others , this has got a and a
11 I mean , when we were growing up , you did n't settle anything with a gun , you did it with your fists . ’
12 It 's surprising thumping him in the back did n't kill him with the kidney failure in n it ?
13 No that consideration , I think , you know if he did n't kill himself with a chainsaw he 'd probably be alright with the shredder .
14 The wages , he did n't trust her with the wages .
15 Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite .
16 And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't .
17 Cos the boy did n't sell it with a modulator !
18 But the odd thing was that it did n't fill me with the slightest sense of humility or feelings about the separateness and ‘ otherness ’ of nature , but with sheer , shouting joy at sharing that old world on a new morning with my wild Scots kinfolk .
19 I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning .
20 There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved .
21 that it had not provided them with an opportunity to confront their problems , to gain insights into how other parts of the school operated ;
22 In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke !
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