Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You are quite sure that you did not go out at all last evening ? ’ |
| 6 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid your Lt. Vologsky did not measure up at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The videos focused on individuals and their themes and this did not feed back into departmental meetings and certainly not into a whole-school context . |
| 13 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 14 | For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war . |
| 15 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 16 | She turned back twice to look at him , but he did not turn round at all . |
| 17 | It did not work out like that , and the world still awaits that scientific proof ( this issue , p 166 ) . |
| 18 | It did not work out like that . |
| 19 | In his opinion , complaining a little about his wife and talking dirty or romantic by turns did not add up to that . |
| 20 | McFarlane did not argue back to any degree . |
| 21 | Declarations did not come in until 1889 , so that Stoddart 's innings was three years before , and that of Collins 10 years after . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side . |
| 23 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |
| 24 | When I met them , I did not come out with all the clichéd bullshit and all the record company going-through-the-motions kind of thing , ’ he says . |
| 25 | In their report , the prime minister 's advisers did not come out against optical fibres altogether . |
| 26 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 27 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 28 | Wilson did not write back until 1st February , 1858 . |
| 29 | I was furious , and hurt , but it did n't sink in at first . |
| 30 | I generally did n't drop off till four or five . |