Example sentences of "jack did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Jack did n't feel much like eating , but to please her he swallowed toast and peanut butter . |
2 | Jack did n't stop to try and work it out . |
3 | Jack did n't like it and he was a bit shirty with Maurice . |
4 | At this particular moment , Jack did n't like himself , and popularity among people that mattered — and who mattered more than himself ? — was very important to him . |
5 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
6 | Jack did n't know much about its history , just that it was a folly built by someone rich , but he had walked there many times with his camera , photographing the temple from all angles . |
7 | Jack did n't know , but he was sure the authorities would explain it somehow . |
8 | This is the chap that lost his job because of the car that Jack did n't buy because of the fall in the price of the house that Jack bought . |
9 | He was ultimately forced to see that the realistic tradition had proved too strong for his friends and for him : ‘ Jack did n't kill the giant . ’ |
10 | Jack did not realise that vertical lines are always straight up and down even when you are standing on a hillside . |
11 | The rocks missed him , yet Jack did not give up and set alight the forest . |
12 | Jack did not reply . |
13 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
14 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
15 | She hissed at Ariel to make him leave , and Ariel would wave him to keep his distance ; Jack did not mind . |