Example sentences of "nor did [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did we make much fuss over presents . |
| 2 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 3 | Nor did we reflect on the way in which work can be used by some people as a substitute for living an authentic life . |
| 4 | We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned . |
| 5 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 6 | Nor did we have sinks and drains , so all the water had to be carried in and carried out again when it was dirty . |
| 7 | Nor did we have a talk beforehand because he was on the stage doing a turn with somebody else — I think they call it a warm-up . |
| 8 | Nor did we come all this way for a christening . |
| 9 | First , in the brief sketch of the early history of radar in the United Kingdom , the earliest work on the detection of aircraft was done not at Bawdsey but at Orford ; Bowen 's middle name was not Gordon , but George ; and as a member of the Airborne Radar Group , I can assure the author that Bowen did not develop airborne radar ‘ single handedly ’ , nor did we develop the plan-position indicator . |
| 10 | We did n't have parties , nor did we celebrate my birthday as most children do . |
| 11 | However , we never put heterosexism itself on the conference agenda , nor did we ask heterosexual participants to discuss it . |
| 12 | We did not consciously ‘ exercise ’ , nor did we require supplementary exercise to keep our bodies finely tuned . |
| 13 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 14 | Nor did they speak nicely or carry handbags from Étienne Aigner in which reposed American Express Gold Cards . |
| 15 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 16 | They did not breakfast , nor did they clear up . |
| 17 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 18 | The Aztecs did not have a term for ‘ fine arts ’ , nor did they speculate about aesthetics , nor make objects to be contemplated for their beauty alone . |
| 19 | Nor did they continue to deploy the full panoply of radical techniques in moments of perceived social and political crisis . |
| 20 | Nor did they think that Sri Lankans prosecuted a larger than normal proportion of true criminal cases because of their faith in the effectiveness of British justice . |
| 21 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 22 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 23 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 24 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
| 25 | Nor did they want a vast editorial board . |
| 26 | In general the West Midlands advisers who responded to the survey did not blame managers for the lack of funds , but nor did they appear optimistic that more money would materialise . |
| 27 | If the people of Sussex did not support the church in the middle ages with overmuch piety , nor did they reject it openly . |
| 28 | Nor did they seem to care very much about women and children or understand our fragile relationships with nature . |
| 29 | His results showed that children below the age of seven years did not structure their stories or explanations coherently , nor did they keep in mind the extent of the listener 's ignorance . |
| 30 | Nor did they consider that there was any irrationality in the verdict which the jury gave . |