Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 2 | He pretended he did n't know me or did n't want to . |
| 3 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
| 4 | Somehow I felt I could not , or did not want to , explain about Miss Havisham and her strange house . |
| 5 | It seemed as if Walterkin 's request for more information had become a subliminal trigger which Lucien could not , or did not want to , ignore . |
| 6 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 7 | The manic international campaign to prevent publication of Peter Wright 's Spycatcher advertised to the world an obsession with secrecy that seemed better suited to the other side of the Iron Curtain . |
| 8 | the people that went before have to sort of do it , but as I say he was n't er , er |
| 9 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 10 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 11 | MacDonald 's rhetoric did not solve the problem identified by the League 's advocates — peace through democracy required a scale of popular revolt that did not appear to be on the agenda in the winter of 1916 . |
| 12 | No tax is payable on any gifts made seven years before death , an exemption that did not apply to capital transfer tax . |
| 13 | When he turned or moved , they swung about stiffly like things that did not belong to him . |
| 14 | If a dispute arose over , for example , which questions to ask an interviewee , the ensuing discussion polarised pupils into groups that did not correspond to their schools . |
| 15 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 16 | He was suspicious of all educational innovations that did not seem to him to have been carefully thought through , and he was critical , too , of the report of the committee on higher education ( 1961–4 ) chaired by Baron Robbins [ q.v. ] and of large-scale university expansion . |
| 17 | The coal that is referred to in this eulogy was mined in pits that did not have to be sunk far to reach the Silkstone seam . |
| 18 | There was an irredeemably old-fashioned ‘ welfarist ’ flavour to our proposals that did not appeal to many who were meant to benefit . |
| 19 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 20 | True , but in some cases that did not amount to all that much , and while inter-war legislation obviously provided the experience for the post-war Planning Acts which followed , the development of statutory land-use control took place at a time when particular environmental changes seemed to be little affected by formal planning powers . |
| 21 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 22 | Portentous ‘ Suppose there was a power that did n't add to the voice , greenhouse effect ; that did n't burn limited fossil turning kind : fuel . |
| 23 | Many clients had a tendency to just store their money away and not do anything with it and sit in clothes that did n't belong to them . |
| 24 | He had given her a ring that did n't belong to him ; a ring he had stolen as he had stolen Mister Johnny 's safety and Hepzibah 's happiness when he had stolen the will ! |
| 25 | ‘ You said that did n't belong to your family . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Leithia Everett ? ’ questioned an all-masculine voice that did n't belong to any of her fellow workers either — though somehow it seemed to be a voice she 'd heard somewhere recently . |
| 27 | ‘ Privacy is a luxury you forsook when you took something that did n't belong to you . |
| 28 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 29 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 30 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |