Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was finished with her , I would make sure she did not give our hiding place away . |
| 2 | Anselm supported Henry , and he did not make his support conditional on Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees . |
| 3 | He did not make his pile opening bazaars you feel sure . |
| 4 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 5 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 6 | You are a foreigner with no settled establishment , you did not pay your hotel bill at Sècheron , and you have a horseless cabriolet that smacks of strange powers ! ’ |
| 7 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 8 | Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests . |
| 9 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 10 | What is , however , essential is that Posidonius was very worried about the social turbulence of his time , even if it did not affect his home island , Rhodes , as seriously as the Greek mainland . |
| 11 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 12 | Iraq , which is thought to have capacity to produce at least twice as much oil as Kuwait , did not send its oil minister to the OPEC talks — an indication that the authorities in Baghdad do not expect an early resumption of export trading . |
| 13 | Indeed , in Merton 's two only ‘ proper ’ jobs , his propensity for sudden comic interludes did not accelerate his career path . |
| 14 | Even when the Senate 's own inquiry reported that his charges were ‘ a fraud and a hoax ’ it did not stop his rocket rise to influence . |
| 15 | Over 90 per cent of the women in the sample felt that tax rates did not influence their work behaviour , with the remainder being about equally divided between the other two options . |
| 16 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 17 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 18 | Their ancient adversaries , the spiders , never developed wings , but they did not allow their insect prey to escape totally . |
| 19 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
| 20 | Britain ratified the Convention in 1951 but did not accept its enforcement machinery until 1966 , and its impact on English law was not apparent until the next decade , when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg began to hand down decisions holding the United Kingdom in breach of the Convention for failures to guarantee certain basic rights to its citizens . |
| 21 | With the end of the First World War , the Germans left , but did not remove their client State . |
| 22 | But in their place , Law did not fill his shadow cabinet with assertive businessmen . |
| 23 | SINGER Stevie Wonder was jubilant yesterday after a San Francisco appeals court ruled he did not steal his hit song I Just Called To Say I Love You . |
| 24 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 25 | She did n't think her bank manager would be very pleased if she ran over her credit card limit as well . |
| 26 | You do realize though that there must have been some people who were saddened by the fact you did n't continue your pop career ? |
| 27 | A large aerial had appeared , projected from the roof , an aerial similar to those used by Post Office vans detecting people who did n't pay their TV licence . |
| 28 | 2 ) ‘ I used raisins as a reward because I did n't want my child eating sweets . |
| 29 | You did n't load your mouse driver ? |
| 30 | Then after two or three months she had had enough so she did n't give her pay packet in at all . |