Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] did not [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 | I remembered that was the name of one of Miss Havisham 's relations , the one who did not visit her often . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Noolan was the only one who did not react . |
14 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
15 | She was a careful , punctilious girl but one who did not like responsibility , not even the responsibility of knowing when and how to lie for her superior . |
16 | Thirty one patients withdrew during the trial : four because of adverse events ( one receiving fluticasone propionate , three receiving prednisolone ) , 24 because of lack of improvement ( 12 in each group ) , one receiving fluticasone propionate because of poor compliance , one who did not complete the trial , and another because of a positive pregnancy test ( both receiving prednisolone ) . |
17 | He threw himself vigorously into the work in hand , and presented the aspect of one who did not know when to stop . |
18 | The one who did not look human was in front . |
19 | A true positive was defined as a patient who had H pylori identified by at least two of the biopsy related tests ( histology , culture , and CLO tests ) , while a true negative was one who did not have H pylori diagnosed by any of these tests . |
20 | George Bernard Shaw was the only one who did not accept with alacrity the invitation to contribute to the library , and , in the Princess 's own words , he refused ‘ in a very rude manner ’ . |
21 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
22 | Anyone who did not read Miss Post 's book before their first voyage had only themselves to blame for sartorial gaffes . |
23 | " … giving him the impression , as indeed it would to anyone who did not know the district , that you had secured a well-appointed house or flat in Chelsea , at a very reasonable figure ? " |
24 | Such a distorted sequence might have profound effects on the student 's musical abilities , especially in the earlier stages , and would certainly make the pedagogic method seem problematic to anyone who did not know that the order of grades had been transposed . |
25 | ‘ Hand up anyone who did not attend a Sunday School last Sunday . ’ |
26 | In my childhood anyone who did not come from Lewis was scathingly described as a ‘ forrinter ’ . |
27 | At that time anyone who did not belong to the Church of England was regarded with contempt and prevented from holding many official positions . |
28 | ‘ The Regional and District Health Authority has shown contempt for the views of anyone who did not approve of your agenda for the health service on Merseyside . |
29 | Those of us who did not have Nancy 's gifts found little to help in our training or in our reading . |
30 | By the time we arrived at the sea , those of us who did not know that stretch of coastline were completely removed from any sense of place or direction . |