Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 2 | They did not want to lose an oar in the wild water . |
| 3 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She did not want to waste a moment of the time they would have . |
| 10 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 11 | But she did not want to become a doctor . |
| 12 | Hilda , for her , simply represented another point of view , which she did not want to get a hearing . |
| 13 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , building societies began to accept investments from people who did not want to buy a house , but use them as a way of investing their savings and obtaining an income in the shape of interest . |
| 14 | Tom Murray did not want to have a lot of girlfriends , but just one for good , one he could be deeply serious about . |
| 15 | As Table 15 , below , makes clear , just over three-quarters of those who replied ( 198 respondents ; 76% ) did not expect to buy a catalogue . |
| 16 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 17 | Alice Mair said calmly : ‘ Good afternoon , Ryan , ’ but did not appear to expect an answer . |
| 18 | I did not intend to do an exhibition on Picasso as a political figure ’ says Heiner Bastian , ‘ but the choice of ‘ Guernica ’ , painted after the German Condor legion 's bombing of the town , as our departure point has in fact turned out to have particular relevance in Germany today ’ . |
| 19 | Of the 198 respondents who did not intend to purchase a catalogue , 157 ( 79% ) went on to give their reasons . |
| 20 | They did not intend to construct an iron curtain around Cuba but to welcome technicians and visitors from all countries to come and work . |
| 21 | In the leader column last week , on the same day Young Group 's shares were suspended , the newspaper felt sufficiently confident of Mr Young 's expertise to write : ‘ He is a man who has until recently made a great success of his business and it would be sad for the North-East if he did not continue to have a part to play . ’ |
| 22 | Some did not like to face a battery of professionals . |
| 23 | Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once . |
| 24 | Using analysis of variance in unifactorial and multifactorial models , age did not seem to have a bearing on any of the parameters of esophageal function . |
| 25 | We found that patients who were significantly younger er sorry we found that patients who were counselled for retrograde ejaculation were significantly younger er but we also found that marital status did not seem to have an effect on whether they were counselled for retrograde ejaculation or not . |
| 26 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 27 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |
| 28 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |
| 29 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 30 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |