Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her , but somehow she did n't think that Mrs Benson was all that reliable as a child-watcher . |
| 2 | Carrie asked but Albert did n't reply because Mister Johnny suddenly spoke from the doorway . |
| 3 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 4 | Christopher Lamb ( Jack Chesney ) , and Jonathan Markwood ( Charles Wykeham ) set the opening scene rather woodenly , and the play did n't lift until Lord Fancourt Babberley ( Mark Curry ) was bullied into his amateur dramatics costume to be the long-awaited aunt , Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez . |
| 5 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Bonanza did n't feel that Miss Fraser should be exposed to a lot of publicity in her physical condition . |
| 7 | It did n't matter that David Beaton was away with the ships ; this was women 's business . |
| 8 | Immersed in her misery , her fight for self-control , she did n't notice that Water Gypsy was no longer under way . |
| 9 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 10 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't believe that Jimmy Savile stuff you wrote on Sunday , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 13 | Eve had n't known that Mr Burns in the hardware shop was inclined to take to the drink or that Dr Johnson had a very bad temper and was heard shouting about God never putting a mouth into the world that he did n't feed . |
| 14 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |