Example sentences of "[vb past] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You may be able to get separate insurance but the companies we tried did n't want to know — and none of the companies normally used by vets to insure pets were prepared to cover fish . |
| 2 | In his careful , helpful , written and oral submissions Mr. Baragwanath , who appeared for the respondents before the Board , accepted that special leave to appeal would as a general rule be granted by the Board in the exercise of its discretion to a petitioner who had been erroneously refused leave to appeal as of right save in exceptional circumstances , for example , where the judgment of the courts below and the record available led the Board to conclude that the petitioner 's chances of success or the amount involved did not justify the imposition on the respondents of the delay and expense which an appeal necessarily entails . |
| 3 | Save for costs on summons and for enforcing the award ( or such costs as are directed by the arbitrator to have been incurred through unreasonable conduct ) , no solicitor 's charges as between party and party are allowed in those arbitration proceedings which have been referred because the sum claimed or amount involved did not exceed £1,000 ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) . |
| 4 | The time scale involved did not allow the adoption of the methods and proven practice used in setting up the " persons " system . |
| 5 | Yeah , well I do n't want that , I just found did n't wan na kick it , I |
| 6 | The houses Jannie found did not have charming patios or mature rose-gardens . |
| 7 | One product I found did not freeze well . |
| 8 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 9 | They 'd did n't have anything in that area and wanted to get into it , hence the whole GT series : the GT-50 head , the GT-50 Stealth , the GT-100 head . |
| 10 | Lib Dems in Scarborough and Whitby constituency claim up to 15pc of the leaflets they prepared did not reach their destinations . |
| 11 | Mitchell 's ( 1950 ) study of villages in the South West is particularly relevant because the considerable variations in population change rates that he noted did not appear to conform with any simple indices of accessibility . |
| 12 | But erm perhaps that 's a good point to erm mention that most of the parents we interviewed did n't see themselves as erm people operating in a group . |
| 13 | We would be able to tell from their expressions that those from whom we begged did not believe us . |
| 14 | And the person she contacted did n't know my address . |
| 15 | What he ordered did not arrive . |
| 16 | Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death . |
| 17 | Furthermore , even if the person warned did not repeat the conduct about which he had been warned , he could be arrested if he engaged in a different act or course of offensive conduct . |
| 18 | In a regiment which had two men shot for cowardice , Reg Glen , now a hundred , says those executed did n't deserve dishonour or death . |
| 19 | But the only speech delivered did not consider this second point and the summary treatment of the appellant 's argument is reflected in the opinion expressed , at p. 633 , that the point certified and argued was scarcely worthy of their Lordships ' attention . |
| 20 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 21 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 22 | Any disappointment that he felt did not last long , however . |
| 23 | And discarded the rest which we felt did not transpose . |
| 24 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 25 | Certainly the various court officials who came and went did n't seem interested . |
| 26 | The voting members were elected by the national parliaments ; ministers who attended did not vote . |
| 27 | The curious thing was that the lawyers , dentists , opticians , salesmen and accountants he knew did n't seem to do much work . |
| 28 | The males I knew did n't share food unless they wanted sex that minute . |
| 29 | The realisation that these were not the bodies of people Patrick knew did not make the matter any more savoury . |
| 30 | I thought did n't want to do it anyway |