Example sentences of "did n't [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as quickly she remembered herself , barely thirteen , standing up in class and saying she did n't think the Catholic Church was fair and the nun , red in the face , asking who did she think she was to question the Pope 's teaching . |
| 2 | I did n't think the old stuff was that bad . |
| 3 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 4 | Needless to say , these events did n't silence the persistent drumming , though they did sometimes drown it out . |
| 5 | Erm , but I did n't prime the previous speaker who spoke so nicely er , about N C V O even though we do seem to be in a mutual admiration society . |
| 6 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 7 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 8 | If that was true , it occurred to her that he had n't really believed what she had told him tonight , but whether he did nor not , it did n't alter the central fact that they were never going to be lovers . |
| 9 | A final demand from the Gas Board and a threat from Glasgow Public Libraries if I did n't return The Maltese Falcon and pay my seventeen-and-six fine they 'd permanently withdraw my ticket and cut my left hand off . |
| 10 | And now there was rarely a day when she did n't walk the half mile over the headland to sit in Alice 's kitchen and talk and watch while she worked . |
| 11 | However , this Harlequin did n't wear the customary mask . |
| 12 | He was good at his job and was always gentle and careful and did n't strike the same terror into me as other dentists . |
| 13 | The steady burning of gas fire jets , the bars of an electric fire , or background radiator heat , may have warmed just as efficiently , but did n't create the same level of flickering flame comfort in our drab British winters . |
| 14 | But after the shower she did n't pass the usual scanner test . |
| 15 | got a very low test statistic either in terms of kie or F right so we have n't reached but the model is still a poor model because we do n't have erm er stable parameters , right , so you would actually reject this model as it stands , alright , because it did n't pass the diagnostic test statistics but there is no point generating parameters w if they , if they are not constant and you 're gon na say elastic demand is one point four six or really it it 's ranged between minus three plus , plus six over the sample , so you put estimate means so it must have constant parameters . |
| 16 | This looked fine and fair on the wall map down at the Town or County Hall but did n't reflect the real world where convenience of travel is n't always based on distance . |
| 17 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 18 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 19 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 20 | She was marvellous but I did n't tell the fat bastard that . |
| 21 | ‘ You did n't send the exterminatus message , Jaq . |
| 22 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 23 | ‘ Gary is enjoying his time off and said he did n't miss the gruelling work that the lads did in training . ’ |
| 24 | And the other thing is were you running from the hard drive or from that floppy ? cos I did n't want the tape-recorder travelling . |
| 25 | Would that be because the Communist Party did n't want the rich peasant to think they 'd be s they were being singled out ? |
| 26 | I did n't want the long journey in to work each day so I let it to Professor Wendell . |
| 27 | I did n't want the heavier introduction stressing the relatively-new filtration . |
| 28 | He did n't want the big fool overlooking his preparations . |
| 29 | Which meant , my instinct told me , that phetam really was valuable , and those caped puritans did n't want the whole galaxy to know about it . |
| 30 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |