Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a hand pressed against the wall for support , and her hard tone and blunt words did n't fool Belinda into thinking she did n't care . |
| 2 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 3 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 4 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a powerful warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 5 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 6 | Ari did not like Tammuz Malamute . |
| 7 | But Creed did n't give Jed time to think . |
| 8 | Piers did not have meat , but only cheese , loaves of beans and bran and various vegetables , and it was on these that he would have to live until Lammas and the new harvest . |
| 9 | A total of 367 pupils in Wales took the GT4 test ( two schools did not return tests ) approximately one-third using the Welsh language versions . |
| 10 | However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed : |
| 11 | At the Angel Road rail bridge on the A406 the cost of remedial work is put at £1.2 million , partly because the department did not install water-proofing until 1983 , about 15 years after the problems were identified . |
| 12 | Granddad did n't use slang because he were Norfolk man . |
| 13 | Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 . |
| 14 | This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 . |
| 15 | The subversive implications of Lamarck 's thought — in particular the implication that a person 's character , destiny and deserts are not wholly determined by his breeding — aroused some disfavour : Napoleon did not like Lamarck . |
| 16 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 17 | Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong survival in oesophageal cancer . |
| 18 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 19 | Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor . |
| 20 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 21 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |
| 22 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 23 | held that no award would be made as defender did not have means and resources to make the payment as there was not a contract of insurance in his favour . |
| 24 | Dana did n't know Berenice was in danger of losing her child ; she was careless , but not vicious . |
| 25 | At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s . |
| 26 | Lucy did not see Doreen or Silas again until late in the afternoon when she moved to close the office window , and it was then that she caught sight of them standing outside one of the chalets . |
| 27 | Finally , and very importantly , they were also responsible for ( a ) the payment of support workers ' wages , and ( b ) for ensuring that expenditure on clients did not exceed budget limits . |
| 28 | Dot did n't hear Mrs Parvis come creeping up behind her . |
| 29 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 30 | As there were lights on the backs of these boxes , the cars did not have stairhead lamps . |