Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 2 | I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . |
| 3 | His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 4 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 5 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 7 | He did not hold out much hope that Merymose would persuade Kenamun to engage him , but there was no harm in familiarising himself with the terrain in advance if he could . |
| 8 | Thus despite the fact that they exhibit an increasing frustration with the novelistic discourse of the period , her first four novels did not succeed in significantly altering fictional convention . |
| 9 | Despite their new-found power , however , they did not succeed in totally obliterating what had been before . |
| 10 | Charles , in Markham Square , did not seem very well briefed on the proposed development work I am doing . |
| 11 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 12 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 13 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 14 | Guido 's gaze was fixed seawards , watching the disappearing boat , and he did not turn round immediately to look at her . |
| 15 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 16 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 17 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |
| 18 | ‘ You did not come out here to admire the lights , I think ? ’ |
| 19 | David did not know quite where to look , but it was one occasion , he subsequently recounted to his friends , when it was better to travel than to arrive . |
| 20 | Did n't sleep very well did you ? |
| 21 | Well , we did n't do too well did we ? |
| 22 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 23 | She had even let Doc Threadneedle into her greymass to plug a few loops , although she did n't want too much done in there . |
| 24 | JE : Am I right in saying , Peter , that you did n't feel entirely well cast as Essex ? |
| 25 | no oh you did n't stay there long did you ? |
| 26 | They did n't stay there long did they ? |
| 27 | His mother , Barbara Edwards of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said later : ‘ I did n't want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did n't go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 28 | I did n't hold out much hope , anyway — Mum was still against the idea , and the aviary was n't even finished . |
| 29 | His tone indicated that he did n't hold out much hope , and that his conscience had already grown that little bit heavier in anticipation . |
| 30 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |