Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 2 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 3 | Even in this type of community , however , men did not always stay at the same job all their lives . |
| 4 | We did n't even look at the others . |
| 5 | The officer did n't even look at the card . |
| 6 | The boy did n't even glance at the folded franc notes . |
| 7 | Today she did n't even glance at the cloudless blue sky . |
| 8 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |
| 9 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 10 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |
| 11 | and did n't always tell at the time |
| 12 | Erm , he did n't actually admit at the hearing that he had hit , erm , but erm , the disciplinary panel agreed that he had perhaps been provoked er rather more than er , had been necessary . |