Example sentences of "[adv] did [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 2 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 3 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 4 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 5 | The gardener Thomas Knowlton was more of a plantsman and obviously did not really enjoy digging the lakes or ‘ canals ’ as he called them . |
| 6 | Students at London University were almost unanimous today in saying a couple going to bed together did n't necessarily mean the woman consents to sex . |
| 7 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 8 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | In practice , that rarely happened because , they said , people from Awlad Amira and from Jlulat were travelling in a vast area and so did not often meet ; and because , knowing that all Jlulat would unite , Amira refrained from attack , and vice versa . |
| 10 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |
| 11 | In the Store , the nomes had made their furniture out of matchboxes and cotton reels ; the nomes living Outside did n't even know what furniture was . |
| 12 | At least they bloody started it and they just did n't fucking jump on the bandwagon like everybody else . |
| 13 | We just did n't even bother to whitewash or to paint the ceiling again . |
| 14 | at the side of him , it 's eeeerrrr , hand on hooter and all of a sudden he goes back over again , he , he just did n't even know I were there , no signal , no nothing . |
| 15 | it just did n't just did n't suit Chris a bit . |
| 16 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 17 | You just did n't quite qualify you two . |
| 18 | The trouble with being what you were was that although your judgement was impeccable , the rest of the world just did n't always know it . |
| 19 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 20 | And then , I never went to sleep but I went sleepy but not did n't actually sleep . |
| 21 | Landed proprietors generally did not much invest in the funds , although some individual peers had substantial holdings . |
| 22 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 23 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 24 | Until last year the balancing item ( ie , errors and omissions ) in the over-seas accounts was larger than the recorded current-account deficit : so that deficit quite possibly did not really exist . |
| 25 | Jonadab realised that the fact that George had reached home did not necessarily ensure that he would live . |
| 26 | It came as a shock to find that the Englishman 's home did not necessarily have a spare bedroom or a bath or inside lavatory . |
| 27 | It was a straight question , and he genuinely did n't already know the answer . |
| 28 | I still did n't entirely believe my nursie . |
| 29 | I still did n't really understand when he said they were lesbians . |
| 30 | It was all very well , but she still did n't really understand why he found her so funny . |