Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy did not go up to apologise to her great-grandmother ; she was too busy doing the work that had been Rosie 's routine . |
| 2 | She knew that he would cause a scene on her when he came in if she did not go out to talk to him . |
| 3 | During the 1940s and 1950s , when the concept of ‘ maternal deprivation ’ was growing in popularity and links were being made between it and juvenile delinquency , Professor Zweig still found National Assistance officials ready to label the widow with school-age children who did not go out to work as an ‘ inferior type ’ and a ‘ professional ’ widow . |
| 4 | Russia declared war on Japan on 8 August but , as the Japanese military reported , the Soviet forces did not appear fully prepared for conflict extending throughout Manchuria and Korea : while much of Manchuria was captured , significant parts of southern Manchuria had not been taken when Japan surrendered on 15 August . |
| 5 | Those Illyrians who did not assimilate probably moved to the less hospitable mountainous areas , but little is known of their fate . |
| 6 | The bones of Christian soldiers who did not return home lie beneath the stones of the desert , sometimes disturbed by the foraging goats . |
| 7 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 8 | Speaking on the BBC 's Election Call , the Education Secretary did not rule out abstaining on a Queen 's Speech from a minority Labour government . |
| 9 | Nick Faldo , keeping a keen eye later in the evening back at his hotel on the sporadic and very fleeting general election results , did not seem unduly perturbed by his 71 . |
| 10 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 11 | Like elderly kiddies at a play they did not understand yet knew to be important , they regarded her as she stood behind the gate . |
| 12 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 13 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 14 | I did not wish openly to agree with her but Mistress Rachel was correct . |
| 15 | Chatterton did not sound unduly worried at that prospect . |
| 16 | In patients in whom H pylori eradication failed , changes in juice vitamin concentrations did not differ significantly according to the final plasma value . |
| 17 | He did not look particularly inspired at the start of the day , but survived to make the semi-final where he met his old rival , Ben Spijkers , of the Netherlands . |
| 18 | ‘ However , I did not come here to quarrel with you , Larua . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not come here to wrangle with you . ’ |
| 20 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 21 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 22 | She felt she did not know where to begin with Tennyson , imagining him plodding through In Memoriam , though perhaps Maud was more likely . |
| 23 | The only part of her personal life in Hong Kong which was different was Damian Flint , and the threat he represented was so great she simply did not know how to deal with it . |
| 24 | She did not know how to respond to the resilience of this smile , the brightness of the white-gold hair , the apple-red glow of the cheeks , the indestructibility of the expression . |
| 25 | It would be a major adjustment , and he did not know how to cope with it yet . |
| 26 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 27 | My advice was sought on several occasions when the family did not know how to cope with quite serious problems concerning the behaviour of one of them . |
| 28 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 29 | He did not know how to react to Jagatan 's distress . |
| 30 | He did n't appear overly impressed with the scheme . |