Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried not to shout so loud . |
| 2 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 3 | Then again , Pontius Pilate , he rejected the Lord Jesus , although he was entreated and warned not to do so by his loved one . |
| 4 | I decided not to say so ; it might sound ironic . |
| 5 | At first he thought of resigning from the jury but then decided not to do so . |
| 6 | I decided not to do so . |
| 7 | The fact , much relied on in some more recent cases in the Ormandy line , that service by mail is not allowed in domestic Japanese cases can not be relevant ; Japan could have objected to Article 10(a) but chose not to do so . |
| 8 | John Hayward had , in fact , first suggested in 1935 that they should set up house together , but Eliot chose not to do so . |
| 9 | As a result , the Rector , Dr Colin Adamson , was advised by senior ILEA councillors to resign ‘ in the best interests of the polytechnic ’ ; however , the corporate status of the polytechnic meant that only the governing body can remove him from office and it chose not to do so and he refused to resign . |
| 10 | You had just enough time to arrive and yet you chose not to do so . ’ |
| 11 | I say ’ or ’ simply because I am not aware — and at the moment there is no way of finding out — whether the consultants who wished to involve the NRA or Cardiff city council 's environmental health department were told not to do so by the Cardiff Bay development corporation or whether , off their own bat , they simply chose not to do so , in which case , if there is a design fault , it lies with them . |
| 12 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 13 | He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement . |
| 14 | An important principal 's been breached here that Parliament was specifically asked 18 months ago to ban hunting and chose not to do so . |
| 15 | These matters were dealt with quite properly ; and where departures from the Local Plan were permitted , this was after advertisement and reference to the Secretary of State for the Environment , who could have intervened , but chose not to do so . |
| 16 | He wanted to turn round but dared not do so . |
| 17 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 18 | He dared not do so for he knew one thing for certain — that he had never really fallen out of love with this stunningly beautiful girl . |
| 19 | I thought they did , but dared not say so . |
| 20 | George cried , who did not want so marvellous an evening to end . |
| 21 | But soon it was clear that the dairyman did not want so many dairymaids at this time of year . |
| 22 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 23 | On another occasion , things did not go so well , ‘ for at each corner of each box they [ rats ] had made a proper hole for access and in each box was a warm nest of straw and the leaves and stalks of the shrubs . |
| 24 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 25 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 26 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 27 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I was very pleased at the way I ran because despite the fact that my training did not go so well I was only five minutes behind my best ever time . |
| 29 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 30 | They did not remain so for long . |