Example sentences of "[Wh pn] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 32 | It should have been a fairly calm journey but the car was driven by a nervous new driver who did not want to lose face . |
| 33 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 34 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 35 | In fact , the only serious problems at this ‘ stage involved children who did not want to leave the security of the one home they knew . |
| 36 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 37 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , building societies began to accept investments from people who did not want to buy a house , but use them as a way of investing their savings and obtaining an income in the shape of interest . |
| 38 | A player , who did not want to be identified , said : ‘ The whole place has gone crazy again . |
| 39 | The former love , who did not want his name revealed , said Suzannah had two grown-up sons . |
| 40 | Its owner who did not want , or did not dare , to bring his boat round to the jetty ? |
| 41 | Someone else who did not want his visit known . |
| 42 | Admittedly , the background was exceptional ; the true beneficiaries of the waiver were the allies , who did not want Germany 's economic resources to be diminished through claims from States previously allied to the Third Reich . |
| 43 | Duff Cooper , an improbable standard-bearer , for he had acclaimed the victory of the independent candidate in Paddington and his wife was a close friend of Beaverbrook , offered himself as a knightly substitute ; and Baldwin , who did not want to sever his connection with Bewdley , accepted gratefully . |
| 44 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 45 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 46 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 47 | George cried , who did not want so marvellous an evening to end . |
| 48 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 49 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 50 | The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons . |
| 51 | It was decided to provide soft drinks and wine for those who did not want whisky and therefore two types of tickets , at different prices , would be on sale , £5 for whisky drinkers and £2 for the others . |
| 52 | In some areas the water was up to four feet high in places and for people who did not want to get wet the task of crossing this water was only possible by two ways , the first being to ask to hitch a lift in one of the high performance tractors which were out being a sort of taxi service and the second option was to catch a lift in either of the boats which also appeared to offer their services . |
| 53 | The land on the outskirts of Portadown changed hands this week at £125,000 an acre , compared with the £250 an acre given to local farmers who did not want to sell . |
| 54 | One solicitor , who did not want to be named , said the new rules were introduced to ensure public accountability for legal aid fees , to which they did not object . |
| 55 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 56 | Another neighbour who did not want to be named said : ‘ The fire was really ferocious . |
| 57 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 58 | One publisher , who did not want to be named , agreed : ‘ Jackie Collins has got a new book out called American Star but I can not see it doing very well . |
| 59 | ‘ Two of the three experts definitely say in the reports that clenbuterol is not a steroid , ’ the source , who did not want to be identified , said . |
| 60 | And one who did not want to be punished , either , was their other comment , as witness the way he was prepared to kill Rose Hilaire once he saw that her tie-up with Joe and John Coffin would enable her memories of what she had seen of Ephraim 's body to go straight to dangerous quarters . |