Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes parents had stopped the laxative because the stool withholding manoeuvres or screaming did not stop as soon as loose stools were induced . |
| 2 | Whether it was talking to travellers or just listening to the lads , whether I felt warmth or animosity did not matter . |
| 3 | Today , it 's difficult to imagine how electric guitars were received in an environment where rock'n'roll did not exist . |
| 4 | Because the death-rate was high , marriages were usually short-term ; and divorce could be obtained where nature did not intervene . |
| 5 | Of these , 102 episodes fitted the criteria described in the methods section , which were designed to ensure that the effects of swallowing or straining did not influence assessment of the effect of reflux on UOS pressures . |
| 6 | On appeal , not merely was no criticism levelled at this direction , but Humphreys J. himself stated that ‘ where … the charge is one of rape it is necessary that the prosecution should prove that the girl or woman did not consent and that the crime was committed against her will . ’ |
| 7 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |
| 8 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 9 | Lowell , in the real world again where music did n't impinge , was watching him keenly . |
| 10 | He needed to think that he had been well-intentioned , but her consent or inclination did not figure among the considerations with which he weighed the matter . |
| 11 | The threat of VAT on children 's clothes or food did not emerge . |
| 12 | Providing the obscene video , photograph or book did not feature a child under 16 , the simple possession of such a tape was not in itself a criminal offence , Mr Jack said . |
| 13 | Most patients clinically suspected of dumping or diarrhoea after having a vagotomy or gastrectomy did indeed exhibit abnormally rapid gastric emptying . |
| 14 | Few of his Frome ancestors had ever been so lucky , and nor had his father ; if death or disease did not rob a 19th-century artisan of his earning power , he had , as we see , the luxury of earning more than he needed to spend . |
| 15 | The fact that no part of the fine was payable to an individual damaged was regarded as evidence that Parliament did not intend the statute to give rise to an action . |
| 16 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 17 | The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate . |
| 18 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 19 | Yes except you did n't , except parliament did n't see half of the effects of it Thatcher |
| 20 | Raybestos also released a statement they had been authorized to make by Dr Selikoff , the world 's pre-eminent expert on asbestos and director of cancer research at Mount Sinai Hospital , to the effect that asbestos did not need to be banned to protect society , if it was properly controlled . |
| 21 | He overheard Geoffrey telling her she was lucky and her reply that luck did n't come into it . |
| 22 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 23 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 24 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 25 | They state that crime did not rise then , and they ask why it did not rise then . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 28 | Although everyone in Rush River told the story the same way , most of them said ‘ and their slaves ' instead of ‘ and their people , ’ but Martha knew that Nana did not like the word ‘ slave . ’ |
| 29 | 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ? |
| 30 | For this reason it was simplest to have a rule that commendo did not raise a trust . |