Example sentences of "[noun pl] did [not/n't] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents . |
| 2 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |
| 3 | The examination , held at the Freemasons ' tavern , was entirely viva voce and the complaint was made that the candidates did not even have to cast a horse , or operate on a dead one , still less on a live one which might have benefited . |
| 4 | The eyes did not even blink . |
| 5 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 6 | But shops showed no interest and the big soap companies did n't even reply to her letters . |
| 7 | The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance . |
| 8 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 9 | The girl playing marbles did n't even look up as the travellers left . |
| 10 | Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews . |
| 11 | As he points out , 18th-century Britons did not even define violence in our terms . |
| 12 | The Convention of Human Rights did not even rate a half-hour adjournment . |
| 13 | Senior officers did not even visit the ground before approving the ground control plan , and the club was criticised for lack of rescue and medical equipment , and inadequate signposting to steer any latecomers away from full terraces . |
| 14 | ‘ Not surprisingly , many athletes did n't even start and more than half retired during the swim and canoe sections , ’ said Graham . |
| 15 | A recent survey showed that over 40% of patients did not even know about the NHS reforms , let alone fundholding . |
| 16 | To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way . |
| 17 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |
| 18 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |
| 19 | The Germans did not even bother to look for the escaped I prisoners . |
| 20 | Headmasters did n't even have to bother with that . |
| 21 | The programmes did n't even start until Saturday morning on October 26th , around the very same time that fly-half Rob Andrew was clinching England 's 9–6 victory over Scotland in the first semi-final . |
| 22 | Chief Insp Copeman admitted the police did not even known the cause of the accident . |
| 23 | He knew nothing about the world — his children did n't even go to school . |
| 24 | Oh no , no , but I 'm sure the children did n't even get |
| 25 | the children did n't even know he was talking to them . |
| 26 | Dated 1910 , it extended from Singapore to northern Australia , so many of the islands on our route let alone the hazards did not even figure . |
| 27 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 28 | The militants did not even try to influence the voters . |
| 29 | Unlike the natural sciences , in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress . |
| 30 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |