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 .
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