Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 2 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 3 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 4 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 5 | Christopher Pitchford , QC , prosecuting , told the jury : ‘ Whatever their feelings were on the home of an elderly woman being broken into by a gang of drug-crazed teenagers , it did not give anyone the excuse to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 6 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 7 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 8 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 9 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 10 | It did not specify what the components of the model were made of , but only their formal relationships . |
| 11 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 12 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 13 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 15 | It did not matter what the man looked like , but he should be listened to . |
| 16 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 17 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 18 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 19 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 20 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 21 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry to distress you , sir , but your committee did not like what the Admiral was proposing to do . ’ |
| 24 | He did not indicate who the mastermind might be , but police have linked the bombings to groups in Pakistan or Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | Rain had to be guarded so that people around her did not follow what the call was about . |
| 26 | These PMR systems were even less secure than land lines so he did not ask what the problem was . |
| 27 | I did not understand what the man was doing , but I wanted to be near the fire . |
| 28 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 29 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 30 | He did not hear what the Woman said next . |