Example sentences of "she did not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 2 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 3 | So , with her thoughts intent upon her programme for the day , she did not immediately connect the two names . |
| 4 | She did not even mention the military involvement in the rebellion or the officer widely believed to have led it , the cashiered Colonel Gregorio Honasan . |
| 5 | On this occasion she did not even pronounce the name ‘ Vietnam ’ . |
| 6 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 7 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 8 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 9 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 10 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 11 | Her lawyer said she did not then know the consequences of the accident . |
| 12 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 13 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |