Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 2 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 3 | Games did not appear in the curriculum . |
| 4 | In 1897 ‘ The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company Limited ’ was registered ( Marconi 's own name did not appear in the title until 1900 ) and with increased funding the experiments became more ambitious . |
| 5 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 6 | It did not outlaw indirect discrimination and indeed the concept of indirect discrimination did not appear in the legislation . |
| 7 | We have heard extensive submissions in this court from Miss Mary Arden ( who did not appear in the court below ) on behalf of the appellant . |
| 8 | We are grateful to her and to Mr. Michael Crystal ( who likewise did not appear in the court below ) on behalf of the Crown , for their assistance . |
| 9 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 10 | Among the items saved was a portrait of Lord Liverpool by Sir Thomas Lawrence , which did not appear in the catalogue and which has gone to the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 11 | However , just before the point of order was raised , a group of Labour Members came in and raised , on spurious points of order , allegations against the Secretary of State for Health arising from matters that did not appear in the report . |
| 12 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 13 | On contacting the 359th Fighter Group Association , we were surprised to find that 42–106929 did not appear in the Group 's official history , which listed Lt Ferris 's crash , but not his aircraft . |
| 14 | Jane often tried to shock her mother into facing some of the world 's uglier problems , but Laura did not react in the way Jane might have expected . |
| 15 | They did not stay in the water long . |
| 16 | He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession . |
| 17 | She did not stay in the room for long ; it was too full of Bella . |
| 18 | Her brothers went through similar reactions with all the horrors of war to disturb their faith , and two did not stay in the Salvation Army . |
| 19 | Net secretion of potassium increased in acute diarrhoea , and did not change in the presence of SCFA . |
| 20 | As it turned out , I never did not smoke in the end . |
| 21 | World-system theories did not originate in the study of phenomena like the modern UK economy . |
| 22 | Among the pieces of evidence advanced for the traditional view , for example , are the facts that until late in the reign of Suleyman the Muftis were considerably less well-paid than the kazaskers and that the Muftis did not sit in the divan whereas the kazaskers did . |
| 23 | And he knew that the Financial Secretary was the junior of three Treasury Ministers and did not sit in the Cabinet . |
| 24 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 25 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 26 | The defect did not exist in the product at the time it was supplied by the defendant ( i.e. the producer , own-brander or importer ) . |
| 27 | Section 4(1) ( d ) provides , " that the defect did not exist in the product at the relevant time " . |
| 28 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 29 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 30 | Matters did not improve in the afternoon when Tony Crosland , a man of immense intellectual curiosity and an adornment of the Oxford Economics Faculty in the immediate post-war period , added his dose of wisdom and hope : ‘ There was ’ , he said , ‘ no surefire recipe for economic growth . ’ |