Example sentences of "[Wh det] do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 2 | Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways . |
| 3 | I decided that what was urgently required was a method and content which did n't place either the problem or the expertise ‘ out there ’ , which helped teachers to share and analyse their own experience , define their problems and priorities , identify their own routes to solutions . |
| 4 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 5 | Rupert Brooke found pleasure in simple things — most of which did n't cost anything at all . |
| 6 | I changed the aluminium knobs for some more cheerful brass handles , covered the wall space between worktops and the bottom of cabinets with some blue and white Mexican tiles ( which did n't cost the earth ) , re-topped the counters with butcher-block and changed the vinyl flagstones for quarry tiles . |
| 7 | Congratulations to who organised the day , which did n't cost a bean ; the coach was paid for from our raffles over the year ! . |
| 8 | He was probably grateful to drive something which did n't blow up every time the mechanics wanted lunch , which is what life was like for Patrese at Alfa Romeo back in the mid-Eighties . |
| 9 | which did n't contain a contingency fund element |
| 10 | ‘ At the time I also appeared in an episode of the Skyways series which did n't last too long because it was pretty dreadful , ’ remembered Kylie . |
| 11 | ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last . |
| 12 | Before the only option was a painfully large injection which did n't last . |
| 13 | It was a fad which did n't last , but again it does bear out your , your general point . |
| 14 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 15 | his father had a public house in Keighley and then , then er when he got married Jack he bought a little business in Keighley which did n't do so well , so then he went and lived in |
| 16 | The more inglorious aspects of Morrison 's life and behaviour , and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his ‘ followers ’ are n't concealed , but then Jones does n't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either : ‘ Humility was a trait which did n't sit well with Morrison ’ is about as heavy as the criticism gets . |
| 17 | By methods which did n't sit well in peacetime America . |
| 18 | Someone else brought in toys , and when the music started Anna was given a horn which did n't make any sound . |
| 19 | This did the trick , of course , but the birds simply moved in next door , which did n't make the neighbours too happy . |
| 20 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 21 | Caduta frequently addressed me in Italian too , which did n't make things any clearer . |
| 22 | Ten more minutes or so went by until she was ready for the net , one scoop followed by some frantic throwing in of excess tail which did n't want to go into the net and she was ours . |
| 23 | So when I appeared on the scene and there were things about me which did n't stack up … well , it was a reasonable conclusion to arrive at . |
| 24 | The opening act was the back-up singers doing a kind of almost traditional Apollo show which did n't go over . |
| 25 | One person commented that when the local MP came to talk to his disability group he told them how good it was that they ‘ got on their own feet and did things ’ — which did n't go down too well with the wheelchair users . |
| 26 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 27 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 28 | The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done . |
| 29 | Leicestershire felt the full force of Buckinghamshire 's keeness in the field when Winston benjamin was run out … a real mix up … which did n't go down too well with Mr. benjamin the batsman … |
| 30 | He was constantly taking notes — on a special pad which did n't disintegrate in the rain , a feature of some interest both to yours truly and his colleagues . |