Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service . |
| 2 | Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service . |
| 3 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 4 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 5 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 6 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 7 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 8 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 9 | They did not want to lose an oar in the wild water . |
| 10 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 11 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 12 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 13 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 14 | Assistant chief leisure services officer Mick Hannon said the Council did not want to replace the competitions already being held . |
| 15 | Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference . |
| 16 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 17 | She did not want to cultivate the snob image . |
| 18 | In fact , the only serious problems at this ‘ stage involved children who did not want to leave the security of the one home they knew . |
| 19 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
| 20 | She did not want to leave the house now . |
| 21 | The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons . |
| 22 | Why do n't you ever mention where your change of clothes come from when you go on those long journeys , I was dying to ask , but I did not want to stop the flow of his fatal attraction and eccentric erudition . |
| 23 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 24 | But he too , it seemed , did not want to spend an evening with his brother-in-law , but said less about his reasons than the voluble Edward . |
| 25 | He could have told this without turning to look ; but he did turn , because he did not want to give the Padre the impression that he was avoiding him . |
| 26 | She did not want to waste a moment of the time they would have . |
| 27 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 28 | His traits were written in the stars , and he could not deny them , but he did not want to suffer the inconvenience of being found out . |
| 29 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 30 | But she did not want to become a doctor . |