Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got out of hospital I dared not go outside . |
| 2 | The wife dared not go by , but took out her pipes and played on them . |
| 3 | Somehow , my visit to the Sign of the Pestle had caused the attack on me so I dared not go back there . |
| 4 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 5 | She hoped for a reply , but dared not hope too much ; she imagined that the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt would have had many replies and perhaps ladies with experience would be far more preferable to a young comparatively inexperienced girl like her . |
| 6 | An ache that she dared not examine too closely . |
| 7 | He wanted to turn round but dared not do so . |
| 8 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 9 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 10 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 11 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 12 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 13 | I thought they did , but dared not say so . |
| 14 | What would our trade be , if we did not combine together ? |
| 15 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |
| 16 | The college authorities did not aim solely or mainly for brilliant scholars or outstanding athletes , but to develop and train those who were capable of a good pass or honours degree . |
| 17 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 18 | Irina , who did not dress up for Ludens , was wearing a simple faded old dress , frail with much washing , the sleeves rolled up well above her elbows . |
| 19 | Numerically , it was an impressive record but it did not bear too much scrutiny . |
| 20 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 21 | They did not give up their privileges easily . |
| 22 | The petition did not succeed , but the governors did not give up . |
| 23 | But Booth did not give up . |
| 24 | Orkney Islands Council did not give up without a fight . |
| 25 | Yet still Lesley still did not give up , keeping after her attacker and sending a radio SOS to police control with her call sign , Delta Romeo Three Two . |
| 26 | Fergie did not give up easily . |
| 27 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 28 | But the Padre did not give up easily . |
| 29 | Storms blew down the trees , fires ravaged the plantation , dry years killed our saplings — but we did not give up , we laboured on ! " |
| 30 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |