Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 2 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 3 | I did not want to think about that yet . |
| 4 | He did not want to enter into that precarious optimism . |
| 5 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 6 | Nicholas certainly did not want to fight alone , and probably did not want to fight at all . |
| 7 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 8 | ‘ Ken Barlow is one character I did not expect to survive for any great length of time , ’ said the Street 's creator Warren , 55 . |
| 9 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 10 | Mitchell 's ( 1950 ) study of villages in the South West is particularly relevant because the considerable variations in population change rates that he noted did not appear to conform with any simple indices of accessibility . |
| 11 | ‘ I did not mean to speak about this , ’ Marguerite assured her worriedly , but Jenna smiled and got on with her task . |
| 12 | They stressed that Brazil did not intend to go beyond this stage as it had " no warmongering pretensions " . |
| 13 | It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that : |
| 14 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 15 | His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all . |
| 16 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 17 | Ricardo reportedly stated that the government did not have to participate in any type of negotiation on the matter and defined repatriation as a sovereign act of any government over the status of illegal aliens residing in its territories . |
| 18 | The reactionary tendencies aside , the artistic community did not have to deal with such disputes . |
| 19 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 20 | I did not have to pay for this copy , so there is no need for you to send any money . |
| 21 | Each miner in the team was an all-rounder and did not have to specialise in any single activity within the overall task of the group . |
| 22 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
| 23 | They did not have to qualify in any other way , and neither will their successors who , like them , will be peers until they die . |
| 24 | I am sorry that the Labour party 's chief spokesman on health did not rise to respond to these matters . |
| 25 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 26 | But , in the UUAC there was unanimity that it did not wish to preside over that kind of success . |
| 27 | Certainly those who worked in the Cages he did not wish to like at all , but among the people who came by the Cages were some who came regularly , day after day , and they seemed all right to him . |
| 28 | A spokesman for Astra said he did not wish to comment at this stage . |
| 29 | It was all around me and I did not dare to go in any direction . |
| 30 | Claudia did n't care to dress in such revealing clothes , but Dana was a model and her looks were her chief asset . |