Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 2 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 3 | Some 40 per cent of services in Flanders do not employ such staff ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Rights and privileges do not pose any particular problems in the case of children . |
| 5 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 6 | The current guidelines do not cover these matters and this will obviously vary from project to project . |
| 7 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Frankly , it 's amazing that Labour did n't make more of the current economic difficulties , ’ he said , expressing vigorous dissatisfaction at the intellectual content of the election campaign . |
| 9 | There was a Department of Trade and Industry Question Time last month and a debate last week , but the Opposition did not answer those questions . |
| 10 | The local opposition did not require much effort to undermine state legitimacy on the effects of uranium mining : indeed the state itself contributed strongly to its own delegitimization . |
| 11 | ‘ The fans do n't want all that , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Er mummy do n't want that I 've had enough |
| 13 | This interpretation was already being undermined in the 1830s as new evidence showed that the geographical provinces did indeed extend some way back into the past . |
| 14 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 15 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 16 | Finally , Hank Marvin 's perennially silvery twang and amiable spectacles return once more with ‘ Into The Light ’ , an album featuring covers ranging from Sylvia by Focus to Steely Dan 's Rikki Do n't Lose That Number . |
| 17 | The Sheikha again said that it was a story from the days past but Halema did not say another word . |
| 18 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 19 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |
| 20 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 21 | On the other hand , cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank . |
| 22 | The Libyans did n't do that . ’ |
| 23 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 24 | However , as we noted earlier , most organizations which adopt fund accounting do not keep all their funds completely separate . |
| 25 | Bernice did n't like this woman . |
| 26 | Firms that are hopeful about the future do not take such measures . |
| 27 | One journalist asked him about " The Love Life of J. Alfred Prufrock " and he replied gravely , " I 'm afraid that J. Alfred Prufrock did n't have much of a love life " . |
| 28 | 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves . |
| 29 | Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 30 | In the other 14 patients , barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction . |