Example sentences of "did not [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not give the money to charity . |
| 2 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 3 | The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation . |
| 4 | Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory . |
| 5 | The accused has not appropriated a thing in action , because the bank did not owe the money to anyone . |
| 6 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 7 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 8 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 9 | He was a rejected favourite who did not relish the advance to power of his rival . |
| 10 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 11 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 12 | They did not harness the deer to sledges but transported goods on their backs and rode on them , and they milked the does . |
| 13 | The vote in the 20-member body was tied , however , and senior political leaders from several parties expressed the view that the preliminary decision did not present a bar to further negotiations . |
| 14 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 15 | Although Roosevelt did not commit the USA to war , the Charter called for the " final destruction of the Nazi tyranny " as well as for the right of all peoples to national self-determination , economic and social freedom , freedom of the seas and ultimate disarmament . |
| 16 | The rest , he said , " did not represent a necessity to us " and were unlikely to be " helpful to our security " . |
| 17 | This thorough ventilation of the issue of chemical weapons did not bring the subject to a halt . |
| 18 | But it did not bring an end to the speculation and confusion which was rending the civilized world . |
| 19 | After a meeting with the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , in Washington , Britain 's Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , warned that all non-humanitarian goods would be blocked from going into Serbia and Montenegro if the talks did not bring an end to the conflict . |
| 20 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 21 | If the parties did not intend the interest to be forgiven , might not the contract have been rectified ( if the argument based on consideration had failed ) ? |
| 22 | Ford told leaders of production workers last week hourly-paid staff would not be made compulsorily redundant , but it did not extend the assurance to white-collar employees . |
| 23 | He obtained her signature but did not explain the document to her and she signed it without understanding it . |
| 24 | And she was furious that Mr Clarke did not break the news to her before holding a Press conference . |
| 25 | Typically , he did not break the news to Arrese himself , but instructed Carrero to do it . |
| 26 | This did not reflect a desire to be impartial , but recognition that Spain 's objective economic and military weakness precluded any other option at this stage . |
| 27 | In July 1988 , the Minister sent a copy of the report to the Serious Fraud Office but decided against immediate publication , and , following advice from the Director of Fair Trading , did not refer the takeover to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 28 | Obviously , I did not receive an answer to my question from the Scottish Office and , even under the priority written procedure , I have not yet received an answer from the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 29 | Last year the judges debated at length how to mark entries that did not follow the drawings to the letter , but showed evidence of good economical production turning techniques . |
| 30 | It did not declare the Treaty to be null and void , for the United States was not within the Court 's jurisdiction . |