Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In common with most bishops in the thirteenth century , especially those with university training , he did not combine his ecclesiastical duties with a high office of state . |
2 | I do not think those were happy times in Emerson 's marriage and they certainly did not enhance his general image in the sport . |
3 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
4 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
5 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
6 | It is since clear that Lord Salisbury did not give his own views . |
7 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
8 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
9 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
10 | The song did not want its own mouth |
11 | He did not want his own country to lose its identity in a supranational body . |
12 | The announcement followed revelations that McEnroe , 30 , did not want his Oscar-winning wife to resume her acting career . |
13 | Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense . |
14 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
15 | Black could operate on the right for there is no challenge now from Robbie Dennison ( Wolverhampton Wanderers ) who did not sign his new contract until earlier this week and has not played a first team game this season — missing out also on the club 's Scandinavian tour . |
16 | The mission was so secret that Yoshida , who was Foreign Minister in addition to Prime Minister , did not inform his own officials of the aims of the mission . |
17 | The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care . |
18 | A rocket motor failed and the spacecraft did not reach its intended orbit . |
19 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
20 | Holiday schemes , in other words , during the Christmas , er , particularly the summer holidays was extremely full in our areas that had these schemes , but it is true to say that some of the children did not pay their full amount . |
21 | Now she was only safe with Felipe because she did not fool herself one bit . |
22 | In 1979 , about a half of the 830 respondents said that they did not evaluate their bibliographic instruction programmes . |
23 | His bulk was squeezed inside the chauffeur 's uniform , which did not fit his turnip-like shape too well . |
24 | There were also some roadworks along the route and we did not pass our usual stopping place for a cup of tea so we pressed straight on to Brighton . ’ |
25 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |
26 | His pursuit of moral ends did not justify his reckless disregard for truth , and his malice destroyed the privilege to which he would otherwise have been entitled . |
27 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
28 | The airman just replied , at 's full of bullshit , " and he did not alter his sloppy slouch on the way either . |
29 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
30 | By admitting the mass of the people into the competitive party system , the liberal state did not abandon its fundamental nature ; it simply opened the competitive political system to all the individuals who had been created by the competitive market society . |