Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 2 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 3 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 4 | The two observations did not go well with each other . |
| 5 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 6 | ‘ You are quite sure that you did not go out at all last evening ? ’ |
| 7 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 8 | It is surprising that markets did not react sooner to this . |
| 9 | On ministerial appointments for instance , while he made MacDonald change his intentions in a number of cases , he did not do so without occasional complaint front the Prime Minister , and continuing give and take between the two leaders . |
| 10 | Even if he did not do so by personal choice , the execution would doubtless be ordered from Washington as a matter of course . |
| 11 | Ironically , Britain was the first state to ratify the Convention , while France , for example , did not do so until 1974 . |
| 12 | He did not arrive there until 2nd January , 1692 , outwith the time allowed for the oath , and then found that the Sheriff-Depute who was empowered to accept his vow of allegiance was absent . |
| 13 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
| 14 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 15 | Despite heavy traffic , it did not fit in with British Railway 's policy , and also it suffered from Union intransigency. tickets were printed by the NER and its successors , and followed their standard designs . |
| 16 | It was clear from Fräulein Silber 's face that she did not think highly of modern art . |
| 17 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid your Lt. Vologsky did not measure up at all . |
| 19 | Deems 's eyes were soft , and did not rest long in one place , as if they sought something they feared to find . |
| 20 | But if Cubist methods of composition did not change fundamentally between 1910 and 1912 , in the spring of 1911 Braque introduced a new element into one of his paintings which was of vital significance . |
| 21 | The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 . |
| 22 | And any relation between members of the same sex which allowed their difference , did not assimilate both to one fantasy , would be heterosexual . ’ |
| 23 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 24 | Jessie did not return home for several hours . |
| 25 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 26 | The bank did not extend far in either direction . |
| 27 | But these did not move forward at this stage , although they were as close to the Yair as were the Scots . |
| 28 | If he did not move promptly on all matters affecting the lands , dues , and privileges of his church , there was no Lanfranc to come to his aid . |
| 29 | Helvin says that their break-up was so amicable that she did not move out of this Primrose Hill house for a year after the split ; simply moved upstairs to another bedroom . |
| 30 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |