Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
2 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
3 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
4 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
5 | In this case the innocent purchaser had agreed to buy a car from , as he later discovered , someone who did not own it , on terms that property in the car would pass to him upon payment of the price . |
6 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
7 | That paper was abstracted by someone who did not know Polish . |
8 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
9 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
10 | There was no point in talking about it to someone who did not know the personalities involved and could not appreciate the circumstances . |
11 | ‘ Then it was an accident , or someone who did n't care whom they killed . |
12 | Probably with someone who did n't insult his family . |
13 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
14 | Have you ever had the experience of being met at an airport or a station by someone who did n't know you ? |
15 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
16 | ‘ Then , supposing the sherry was poisoned , and supposing it was aimed at you , then it could only have been put there by someone who did n't know your habits ? ’ |
17 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
18 | Was there nobody who did n't know ? |
19 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
20 | ‘ I was thinking maybe she had a husband or a brother or somebody who did n't think much of the set-up . ’ |
21 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
22 | The one person amongst them who did n't move back was the young man with the whiskers and the private placard of his own . |
23 | We 've had a lot about politics this morning , and if the Labour Party wants to mobilize working women many of them who did n't vote Labour at the last election here is a ready made campaign to take into the next election . |
24 | I could have resisted him until we were married , and I know he would have waited , but it was me who did n't want to wait . |
25 | Miss said somebody did that for me who did n't want to do their ordinary work . |
26 | ‘ 'T WAS you who did n't want to marry me , ’ she cried , trying to drown out the tormenting echo . |
27 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
28 | IN THE millionaires ' row that is Ibrox , the most valuable player is one who did n't cost a penny . |
29 | Oh , she drew , she was the only one who did n't draw a horse on the National , |
30 | I think it were the Irish Times or something , or the Irish Betting Times or something like that , and she was the only one who did n't draw a horse , and she thought oh well that 's it , no chance . |