Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the fact that he staggered slightly did n't lessen his menacing impact on Isabel 's senses . |
| 2 | Mm , that one , I do n't know though did n't have a blonde woman see and I never , I did n't , I did n't realise there was two and I really did not and I suddenly there 's , they all come out on the ice |
| 3 | And that process certainly did n't happen ’ ( 1980 , p. 20 ) . |
| 4 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 5 | Topstock clearly did n't know what to make of that . |
| 6 | And yet the woman she had met earlier did n't look bitter . |
| 7 | Well tell me what it was like for you , from your point of view , erm , erm coming to a New Town with a teenage son because most of the couples who came either did n't have any children or were just about to have baby |
| 8 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 9 | Turning away did n't take the burden from her . |
| 10 | When the oral antibiotic I 'd used before did n't work this time around , I insisted on seeing a specialist . |
| 11 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 12 | On completion the railway found the workmen had discovered alternative transport and the Loughton pick up did not recommence . |
| 13 | Pilate obviously did not consider this to be a threat to Roman authority and tried to have him released . |
| 14 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 15 | Bett just did n't realize that keeping company was no longer a walled alley leading to the altar . |
| 16 | Getting out did n't make such an indelible impression as going in . |
| 17 | One night spent together did n't make a relationship out of open warfare . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |
| 19 | Nor had the return invitations been much more successful : often , indeed , to Mrs Crump 's shame , the invitations simply had not been taken up and those for whom the very considerable expense had been laid out did not attend the ball . |
| 20 | But in fact those they sought to protect often did not act as if they were passive . |
| 21 | It was not merely that many people were dismayed by Labour 's tax plans : they also felt a wider and deeper sense of mistrust , that Labour 's numbers on revenue and spending simply did not add up . |
| 22 | Age simply did n't come into the kind of relationship we had . |
| 23 | Also , starting there did n't tell enough about John Russell . |
| 24 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 25 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 26 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 27 | The men I knew just did n't give their wives presents for no reason . |
| 28 | Labour simply did not have the people on the ground to counter their lies as it used to . |
| 29 | Rain still did not know the answer to that when she drove to Kington Square another hour on . |
| 30 | Those teenagers left behind did not let their new skills go to waste . |