Example sentences of "and [vb past] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 2 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 3 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 4 | She was very shy , and did not often speak to anyone outside the family . |
| 5 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 6 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 7 | As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research . |
| 8 | We were in a hurry , and did n't even stop at a motel on the Friday night , driving 1,400 miles at a stretch . |
| 9 | He was examining the damage to the Peugeot , and did n't even glance in the direction of the departing car . |
| 10 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 11 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 12 | They both knew what they were doing and did n't just rush into it . |
| 13 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 14 | So , eventually , the guy said : ‘ No , I 'm not going ’ to the teacher and the teacher turned his back on him and did n't ever speak to him again . |
| 15 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 16 | They gave me a cheque for some stuff , but Keith just wanted to spend it and did n't really think about what he was buying . |
| 17 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |
| 18 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 19 | I thought it sounded a bit slushy and did n't really relate to it . |
| 20 | and did n't always tell at the time |
| 21 | Mr Lambert added the inquiry was still gathering steam and had not yet peaked despite the recent removal of the mobile police pod outside the pensioner 's home . |
| 22 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 23 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |