Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cold light of the morning after , she did not think she even fancied him , could hardly bring what he looked like into focus , she had gone briefly crazy that was all , gone native . |
| 2 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 4 | And although my department and British Rail had produced a joint report , this did not mean we automatically accepted BR 's views . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 6 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 7 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 8 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 9 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 10 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 11 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 12 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 13 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 14 | He neither leered nor lunged , he did not pinch her neither did he make a sudden and late demand for hot water and a brandy to his bedroom . |
| 15 | ‘ I did not call you here to discuss the offices . ’ |
| 16 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 17 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 18 | He says I did n't think he really wanted to shoot me . |
| 19 | I did n't think you even liked me very much at the moment , let alone … let alone cared sufficiently to want to marry me … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
| 21 | Shame about the stupid did n't think it just happens . |
| 22 | Love ? she mused , and she did n't think she quite liked the idea of Leo watching her while she slept . |
| 23 | That 's one of the reasons we did n't bother we just painted it , you know ? |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to talk about my relationship with Marianne , ’ he cut in brusquely . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to open up all the old wounds again , ’ he growled at last . |
| 26 | I did n't bring you here to upset you . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got this irksome fetish for using the natural colours surrounding a place to decorate the interior — but I did n't bring you here to discuss my schizophrenic choice of living surroundings , Virginia . |
| 28 | Well I 've done , did n't do it right did I ? |
| 29 | And I did n't tell you now to make , probably that . |
| 30 | His parents did n't send him here to have the teachers live his life for him . ’ |