Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] out " in BNC.

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1 As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted .
2 However , the meeting agreed not to walk out on strike in protest at the 1,600 job losses , 67 at Glasgow , announced by the company 's receivers on Friday .
3 If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity .
4 They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast .
5 An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker .
6 An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) .
7 It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole .
8 Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her .
9 Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed .
10 Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself .
11 And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long .
12 And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long .
13 There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle .
14 I did not carry out their instructions very well so they had to be very precise in explaining things to me .
15 Luke even hints that the Romans did not carry out the execution of Jesus but that the responsibility was that of the Jews ( Luke 23:25–26 ) . )
16 The parents were reluctant to use the technique and gave her lots of warnings and did not carry out their threats .
17 The respondent did not however consult a solicitor until March 1990 and prior to that time did not carry out , or arrange for the carrying out of , any investigations .
18 Leaders of deputies from the opposition nationalist organization , Rukh , did not carry out their threat to boycott the session of the Supreme Soviet in protest at Kravchuk 's signing the transitional plan for the new state structure at the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies on Sept. 2 .
19 The man he left in charge did not carry out the duties expected of him .
20 They did not go out giving intellectual addresses saying : ‘ Come to our seminar and we 'll discuss the epistemological significance of the empty tomb .
21 This time , Wilson did not go out in the street to wave goodbye nor did she weep .
22 The Australian singer 's manager , Mr Ray East , said Donovan would accept payment of the remainder over 18 months in a gesture aimed at ensuring that the magazine did not go out of business .
23 Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women .
24 Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality .
25 Ellen and I did not go out to eat .
26 It is hardly surprising that the LNU leaders did not go out of their way to point out that , without the final threat of military sanctions , an economic blockade against an aggressor power was most unlikely to succeed .
27 Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it .
28 The Lords of Trade asked merchants and other interests to give their opinions about policy ; a number of ministers had grants of their own for settlements in North America and clearly expected to benefit as landlords , though they did not go out like the Penns and the Baltimores to take an active role in running their properties .
29 In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear .
30 It is assumed by the survey , and accepted by most historians of the period that married women with children did not go out to work unless they had to .
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