Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
| 2 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |
| 3 | I did not think this fellow would survive very long , he was what I call one of my " oncers " . |
| 4 | It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’ |
| 5 | I did not hold that against him . |
| 6 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 7 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 8 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 9 | I did not want that . |
| 10 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 11 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 12 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 13 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 14 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I did not expect that from you . ’ |
| 16 | I did not expect such kindness … |
| 17 | ‘ I did not expect this from you , Louisa . |
| 18 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 19 | Although I did not relish such conditions I reached the final quite easily ; but then disaster struck . |
| 20 | I did not sample any of the catering so I can not comment on quality and value , but the everything was ready on time , and the queues seemed to move reasonably well . |
| 21 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not mean that . |
| 23 | I did not mean that . |
| 24 | I did not answer any of them . |
| 25 | I was n't very sympathetic , but I did not strike any blows to her face , ’ said Mrs Swales . |
| 26 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 27 | I am glad that I did not miss that intervention , because it has contributed so much to the debate . |
| 28 | I was teaching for a while , I did not miss many gigs , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ I did not arrange this ! ’ she said huffily . |
| 30 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |