Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Lisa did not answer it . |
| 2 | ‘ And so Alida did not come , ’ Dorothea said . |
| 3 | Obviously Miles did not trust her with his camera or there might have been a matching sequence of ‘ Miles in front of a shop … |
| 4 | Perhaps Ron did not have the greatest technical ability , but his commitment was never questioned and he could play pretty effectively on either flank so that he was therefore a useful defender . |
| 5 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 6 | So God did not make the mother animal to lay her eggs . |
| 7 | So Lewis did not say , even to himself , when he was privately considering trying to get hold of his son in Tenerife , that he disliked Adam and would have been pleased to spoil his holiday . |
| 8 | Only Alfred did not join in . |
| 9 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 10 | Perhaps Mosley did not mind as much as he pretended . |
| 11 | Suddenly Comfort did not find their double-act funny any longer . |
| 12 | Not just for Paris either : on the evening of April 6th a huge screen was erected on the Place de la Bastille ; as was one on the Place Bellecour in Lyon , the Place du Capitole in Toulouse and in tiny Aubagne too ( apparently Marseille did not want to pay the 180,000 Francs demanded for the relay , nor could they find anywhere sufficiently large or quiet ) . |
| 13 | What is likely is that once more Ken did not follow through with his desires . |
| 14 | Still Rachaela did not respond to Mrs Keating 's red rag . |
| 15 | And still Jinny did not guess right . |
| 16 | But although other ships put in — merchantmen from Spain and France and Italy — the weeks turned into months and still João did not arrive . |
| 17 | But clearly Malory did not feel this urge towards exactness at all . |
| 18 | Probably Peter did not see it . |
| 19 | Little Billy did not believe a word of this . |
| 20 | By now Endill did not know where he was . |
| 21 | Even Gregory did not associate Clovis 's campaign against Gundobad with Chlothild 's desire for vengeance . |
| 22 | Surely Cunningham did not mean to pretend nothing had happened . |
| 23 | The ultimate source for much that has been discussed must certainly be Pearl , with its story of the ( failed ) escape from mortality , its heavily traditional phrasing , and its fantastically complex metrical scheme , of twelve-line cross-rhymed stanzas with alliteration , assonance , syntax-variation and ( even Tolkien did not attempt this ) stanza-linking and refrains.ii However the Pearl tradition did not last till Shakespeare and Milton and the Romantics , who are accordingly and to that extent impoverished . |
| 24 | But even Dorothea did not mind . |
| 25 | Marx , Marx did n't Marx did not anticipate leaders . |
| 26 | And even Gazzer did not appreciate the strength of character it needed for her to make that choice . |
| 27 | Questions must also be asked about why the sprinter has only now , after five months of considerable time and expense from lawyers , advisers and athletics officials , revealed information that even Morphitis did not know about . |
| 28 | Mr Capino , remembering the bloody massacre in Peking 's Tiananmen Square in June , says at least Marcos did not turn the army on his own people . |
| 29 | At least Mandru did not expect his Ixmaritians to perform naked , as was the traditional custom . |
| 30 | Unfortunately Lester did not have complete artistic control over the picture . |