Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 2 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 3 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 4 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 5 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 6 | She said she did not want him staring at her , she wanted a bit of her life to herself ; without having to share it with Randolph Ash . |
| 7 | God knew she did not want him lowered by doubt , or by pain , or by despair , as Lulach had once seemed to accuse her . |
| 8 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 9 | He could understand , even appreciate , the violence , but he did not want it turned against himself and Nona . |
| 10 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 11 | If the Labour party did not want us to vote for its councillors , what confidence can we have in the people that it puts up for election ? |
| 12 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 13 | He would often ask about Dinah and his family , and send them affectionate messages ; Nathan passed these on to Dinah , but he did not think she spoke of their father to the children ; it was better not . |
| 14 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 15 | Consequently , since the substitutes too are expected to play a role in the manumission ( owing to the general clause ) , it is reasonable to assume that the testator did not intend it to apply to their case too . |
| 16 | Similarly , a power entitling a landlord to re-enter for " building sites or planting or other purposes " did not entitle him to re-enter in order to build a sports stadium ( Coats v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |
| 17 | If Henry thought that there was a contradiction in terms about the words ‘ medical poison ’ he did not Let it show in his face . |
| 18 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 19 | Practical inexperience and rare encounters did not stop us talking about boys . |
| 20 | They did not offer me works of comparable greatness as alternatives , so their objections were hardly a problem . |
| 21 | The haste , perhaps , and the diffidence both , were encouraged by his wife , who did not like him to talk of Trade , considering it to be vulgar , and yet she was pleased to note that this casual reference to wealth met with a satisfactory , if silent , response . |
| 22 | And he did not declare it according to Commons rules . |
| 23 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 24 | Two psychiatrists said that although Bourgois was mentally ill they did not believe he needed to be detained further . |
| 25 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 26 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 27 | He did , but did not let it interfere with his judgment . |
| 28 | ‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did . |
| 29 | Either he did not wish me to get into trouble or , more probable , he did not relish the thought of giving me so much gelt — sixpence . |
| 30 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |