Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 2 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
| 3 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 4 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 5 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 6 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 7 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 8 | ‘ No , Constanza , ’ Ludovico replied , ‘ I did not give you a shock . |
| 9 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 10 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 11 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 12 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 13 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 14 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 16 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 17 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 18 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 19 | He was so cool now , so calm , and the fact that she was feeling utterly wretched did not bother him a bit . |
| 20 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 21 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |
| 22 | She did not offer us a tour of the house . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 24 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 25 | We did lose four equity partners along the way and had to borrow £300,000 to repay their capital accounts , but , with a turnover of around £2m , we did not consider it a problem . ’ |
| 26 | And those who said they did not find it a strain expressed themselves for example as follows : |
| 27 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 28 | ‘ The standard of football we produced against Marseille did not warrant us a place in the final . |
| 29 | I 'm amazed that you did n't bring me a bunch of fucking flowers . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't bring you a stamp . |