Example sentences of "[noun prp] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eastern bishops were invited — though those in communion with Constantinople did not turn up — as well as abbots and lay representatives not only of princes , but of some city-states as well . |
| 32 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 33 | In France the news was the main topic of conversation in cafes and restaurants but President Mitterrand did not make an official statement . |
| 34 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
| 35 | Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor . |
| 36 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 37 | In the view of the NGC , the PLO did not appreciate either the seriousness of the Camp David threat or the strength of feeling in the territories . |
| 38 | Rafiq did not speak but stood looking at his two colleagues , an enigmatic smile on his face . |
| 39 | Freud did not hold that instincts directly caused behaviour , uninfluenced by the surrounding cultural values . |
| 40 | In order to accommodate this fact Freud did not abandon the idea that all dreams were wish-fulfilments , but hypothesized a mechanism , the dreamwork , whereby dreams were censored . |
| 41 | Despite what many people claim , however , Freud did not say that dream interpretation shows that all dreams have a sexual content . |
| 42 | Some such explanation seems called for , given the fact that in many ways the two theories of Reich and Freud did not disagree fundamentally on the one area of the need for sexual reform . |
| 43 | Sigmund Freud did not overestimate the importance of sex in psychology , he simply showed that sex existed and played a major part in the psychological development of a human being and if suppressed could result in neurotic disorders . |
| 44 | But Rennenkampf did not move and one can only conjecture why . |
| 45 | Manville did not regard his surveillance as a betrayal of trust , either . |
| 46 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 47 | Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic . |
| 48 | The weekend with chums in Chichester did not seem , on the Monday 's showing , to have left Micky Banks much time to look at his lines . |
| 49 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 50 | Gorbachev did not respond until Feb. 5 , when he issued a decree declaring that Lithuania 's referendum was juridically invalid , and ordering elected Lithuanian bodies to ensure the holding of the all-union referendum . |
| 51 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 52 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 53 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 54 | Eleanor did not reply . |
| 55 | I was to stop the Deveril woman and proceed to Godstowe , do whatever was necessary to ensure Lady Eleanor did not embarrass the Crown or the English court . ’ |
| 56 | He was relieved to feel that he would not be alone with Eleanor and was sure that he would be able , casually and quietly , to say something about Liza in the course of the evening — that is , if Eleanor did not say something first . |
| 57 | In June 1990 Ferenc Bartha , the National Bank president , reported that Hungary did not wish to reschedule the country 's $20,700 million foreign debt . |
| 58 | But Marie did not notice these things : she was too preoccupied with trying to look inconspicuous as she hurried , head down , past the reception desk . |
| 59 | But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death . |
| 60 | Scott did not come . |