Example sentences of "[pron] did not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not however communicate with any of my friends in England on the Subject save only Sir Ralph Darling . |
| 2 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 3 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 4 | I did not normally develop bronchospasm . |
| 5 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 6 | Once again , I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain , I should be irretrievably lost . |
| 7 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 8 | I would leave this drab and unhappy employment in St Andrew 's House — for what I did not yet know . |
| 9 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 10 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 11 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 12 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not just hear ! ’ she retorted . |
| 14 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 15 | I did not even wonder mildly what on earth the S.S.O. of Benedict 's was doing on the Downshurst bypass on a mid-week morning . |
| 16 | I did not even discuss terms with Wimbledon and I would have been quite happy to sign for Newcastle . |
| 17 | Perhaps I did not even know it . |
| 18 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 20 | He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " . |
| 21 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you are , although I did not even imply it . ’ |
| 23 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |
| 24 | But as I recall , I did not actually disembark again until I was quite near Salisbury . |
| 25 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 26 | After the hearing , Miss Lamplugh said : ‘ I did not actually think about my sister at the time . |
| 27 | I did not really expect one . |
| 28 | ‘ Constanza and I did not really talk about Michel . |
| 29 | It was a very dangerous plan , and I did not really think it would work — but we had to try ! |
| 30 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |