Example sentences of "did not [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this Presbyterian nationalism did not normally lead to Jacobitism , we do see a brand of Scottish Whig Jacobitism during William 's reign , centring around the person of James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie . |
| 2 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 3 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 4 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 5 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 6 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 7 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 8 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 9 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 10 | Ahidjo did not subsequently return to Cameroun , and in the presidential election of January 1984 Biya received a ‘ yes ’ vote of over 90 per cent , which most Camerounians considered to be a genuine indication of his underlying support . |
| 11 | Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received . |
| 12 | Individual authors could write on the decline of national intelligence but public debate did not necessarily lead to action . |
| 13 | Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition . |
| 14 | He quotes examples , such as Ley Rock , near Tintagel , and Bonsall Leys , high up on the Derbyshire moors , to demonstrate that the word did not always refer to pasture . |
| 15 | Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view . |
| 16 | The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion . |
| 17 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 18 | He knew nothing about the world — his children did n't even go to school . |
| 19 | In the end I did n't even walk to Cambridge , but went ignominiously by bus from Royston , where we stopped for lunch . |
| 20 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 21 | I did n't usually get to bed until 11 or 12 pm . |
| 22 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 23 | Unfortunately Anthony usually chose college friends and Nigel did n't really take to bluestocking women . |
| 24 | Things did n't quite go to plan — which has proved annoying for you , and you 're now asking for a second service ; for which you 'll pay me . ’ |
| 25 | But today 's demonstration did n't quite go to plan . |
| 26 | We did n't often go to London in those last years . |
| 27 | erm I , in m I in my opinion that the Communist Party aim of increasing productivity was n't actually achieved and because of all these problems erm could that their policy of favour of erm promoting rich peasant economy did n't significantly contribute to industrialization erm I mean there was a little bit of an economic growth but that it was n't particularly significant . |