Example sentences of "did not [verb] any [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy .
2 According to Bernard , as there was a long and well-established tradition of acceptability of anti-predestinarian theology going back to 1559 and beyond , the events of the 1630s did not represent any sea-change in the doctrinal position of the English church .
3 Section D did not detect any abnormalities in patient D.
4 He did not waste any energy in trying to break free of the mask , because he knew it to be pointless ; the Robemaker 's dark enchantments were seldom broken and he knew , as well , that there would be far worse torments ahead .
5 RICHIE did not waste any time in responding to Patrick 's appeal .
6 Our recommendations on the teaching of knowledge about language had to be accompanied by an insistence that our policies did not necessitate any change in good teaching practice .
7 We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated .
8 In addition one of the subjects did not show any fluctuations in risk ratings , in debriefing he explained that he certainly could imagine many risky situations , but he had not encountered any during the drive .
9 In its report , the committee did not recommend any change in the law but that these matters should be left to the good sense and judgement ( hopefully ) of Cabinet ministers , utilising the Radcliffe guidelines .
10 A new Gaullist party , the Union pour la Nouvelle République ( UNR — Union for the New Republic ) , became the largest single party , in spite of the fact that de Gaulle carefully maintained his distance from it and did not play any role in the election campaign .
11 She was very conscientious but did not see any danger in what she was doing by walking alone after dark .
12 However , this study did not find any differences in morbidity between the two groups .
13 I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code .
14 AT1 said that she did not notice any difference in this regard but was nevertheless glad of the opportunity which the review had afforded to meet the Head personally , as she had not done so since her interview on appointment some years previously .
15 Mr Airlie conceded that there might be some residual animosity towards the electricians but he did not envisage any problems in taking the union into the TUC .
16 Moreover , he did not envisage any circumstances in which he would exercise a right to intervene .
17 UK Prime Minister John Major also praised Yeltsin 's response but stressed that the UK did not envisage any cuts in plans to deploy the Trident missile .
18 The advances in Abyssinia and Somalia did not raise any excitement in our village .
19 The Government did not own any land in Charles Street .
20 But it did not garner any reductions in repayments due .
21 Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed .
22 Future canine guests should be just as welcome — she did n't leave any hairs in the bath !
23 She did n't want any gaps in the conversation .
24 She had a room , north-facing ; she used to enjoy ‘ the films ’ herself until her eyesight got poorly ; she did n't want any money in advance .
25 ‘ Yes , we were , although it was a Cambridge officer who broke the news because I did n't want any delay in case the Press got it .
26 True Blue Funny , Campbell did n't show any interest in joining the ‘ number one team ’ this time last year — when Glentoran were champions .
27 ‘ You did n't notice any holes in his clothing ? ’
28 It was the only match that did n't get any pictures in the Championship video .
29 The group spokesman said its members did n't need any lessons in either cross community co-operation , tolerance or good neighbourliness from what he described as ‘ the bigots of the Orange and Black Orders ’ .
30 They did n't find any poison in her body .
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