Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really am sorry I did not call you , ’ the smart-suited diplomat urged the girl on , his accent heavy Nigerian . |
| 2 | ‘ I am sorry I did not contact you before — things just moved too quickly . |
| 3 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 4 | This I did not like . |
| 5 | But I 'm afraid I did not go to the opera . ’ |
| 6 | I am afraid I did not pause to read my mother 's letter , but tore open the enclosure with spastic fingers . |
| 7 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 8 | And all through this she did not think of Giles . |
| 9 | Until they moved to Coniston in 1801 she did not have a settled home , spending much of her time visiting friends in London , Shirley , and Bath . |
| 10 | Some of the languages she knew , she thought ( it was hard to tell in the uncertain light , and she was too stiff to be bothered bending down ) , and some she did not recognise . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 12 | This they did not do . |
| 13 | This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed . |
| 14 | Arguments have arisen over proposals to introduce automatic parole for short-term prisoners ; also over the possibility of dividing every sentence of three years or under into three parts : imprisonment , supervised release , and remission ( which Lords Justices on the criminal side of the Court of Appeal made clear they did not like ) . |
| 15 | If he was able to achieve this it did not augur well for the struggles against the three Indian spinners , who had variously been described as inexperienced and nebulous . |
| 16 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 17 | This he did not do . |
| 18 | But about this he did not care . |
| 19 | Whether Mick would have proposed this he did not know ; he only knew that the desire had been there ; but it seemed to be the pattern that she and her uncle left together at dinnertime . |
| 20 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 21 | BAe has made it clear it did not consider the bid by Mr Hooke as a serious contender and has said it regards the Raytheon offer as best for the company , shareholders and employees . |
| 22 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 23 | Talking to Glenn before his contest with Averil Marshall it was clear he did not like losing . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 25 | His eyes were cold water and he spat , which distressed Melanie so much she did not take in what he said . |
| 26 | She had enjoyed the classes but the first thing they had taught her was how much she did not know , denting her confidence somewhat , and she was still terrified of the daunting Mrs Frampton-Cox . |
| 27 | In this case it was fortunate he did not break his neck . |
| 28 | But there was much he did not own . |
| 29 | He did not know Dinah 's handwriting ; there was so much he did not know about her , he told himself , tearing the envelope open urgently . |
| 30 | There was much he did not know . |