Example sentences of "[pron] did not [vb infin] all " in BNC.

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1 So I did not spend all my time peering upwards , searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles .
2 When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts .
3 She did not relish all those dishes which memory served up .
4 Although she swung round quickly , he noticed that she did not seem all that startled .
5 To confuse matters for the historian , the exponents of widely differing interpretations called themselves ‘ Darwinians ’ because they acknowledged Darwin 's lead even if they did not accept all the details of his theory .
6 If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger .
7 Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far .
8 Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more .
9 He did not speak all the way .
10 ‘ Because he did not deliver all the papers .
11 T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with .
12 He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique .
13 as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty !
14 When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members .
15 Eck 's defence was that of ‘ operational necessity ’ , i.e. that if he did not destroy all traces of the sinking , his boat would be in grave danger of itself being sunk by Allied aircraft in the morning , as had happened to his four predecessors .
16 The mere fact that he did not have all the information could not be an excuse for not complying with the notice under s 8 , TMA 1970 .
17 Yet he did not oppose all toxic waste movement ( after all , the same union represents workers at Rechem itself ) ; he simply did n't like the idea that big industrial nations like Canada could dump their dirty problems on this country and his members .
18 This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms .
19 The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans .
20 First , it did not take all the development value .
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