Example sentences of "did not [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 2 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
| 3 | When they participated in the market economy , they were usually confined to menial positions , many of which did not bring them into much contact with men . |
| 4 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
| 5 | Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all . |
| 6 | Indeed , she did not accompany them on this stroll along the Western Esplanade to the Dumpton Gap even in their thoughts . |
| 7 | In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength . |
| 8 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
| 9 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
| 10 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |