Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it certainly never bothered me , or did n't make any difference to one 's work . |
| 2 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 3 | Or did not recognise those plots she had . |
| 4 | There were comparable difficulties elsewhere , particularly in Georgia and Uzbekistan , and indeed there were few parts of Soviet territory that did not experience some form of nationalist self-consciousness combined with pressure for a greater degree of cultural and economic autonomy . |
| 5 | He gathered his own particular circle of close advisers around him and was prone to discount views that did not reflect those prevailing in his own circle . |
| 6 | A party that did not choose this platform ( e.g. for ideological reasons preferring less government spending ) would be defeated if the other did . |
| 7 | Those businesses that did not meet this exacting standard would , vowed Mr Welch , be ‘ fixed , closed or sold ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ A budget ceiling was involved , to enable us to develop services with a shadow or actual weekly running cost that did not exceed that of institutional care . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 10 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 11 | And the birth of the Universe , if some current theories are to be believed , depended on particles that did not have any physical existence at all . |
| 12 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 13 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 14 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 15 | The only bakery that I know that did n't do that was the . |
| 16 | So they just sit in the inside lane do n't they , turn up the radio , or put a cassette in , or maybe even get their papers on their lap and , thing , yes , but then the ones that did n't do this planning are the ones that you see going see them , probably you . |
| 17 | And secondly , as regards where they were the road maps did n't seem that did n't coordinate that |
| 18 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 19 | Er that did n't draw any response from the County Council , so in er December nineteen ninety two when er when the deposit draft came through er we sought a clear understanding of the County Council position . |
| 20 | It was the only match that did n't get any pictures in the Championship video . |
| 21 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 22 | Ah well tha no Meadow Road 's got the old gates but at Natherton there were some that did n't have any barriers at all , they were just flashing lights . |
| 23 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 24 | But I was offering a meal that did n't run any cholesterol risks . |
| 25 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 26 | While writers simply reflected people 's greater knowledge of the colonies and did not do much to increase it , the churches made quite substantial efforts to keep in touch across the Atlantic . |
| 27 | Although no independent assessment of quality of life was performed in these patients , from the objective assessment of exercise capacity and left ventricular function in each case combined with the full time employment of most of the long term surviving patients , the patients ' answers to a simple telephone questionnaire were probably accurate and did not reflect any inappropriate bias . |
| 28 | Tess was not surprised at Mrs d'Urberville 's cold manner , and did not expect any more of such a great lady . |
| 29 | The description was vague and did not fit that of Daniel 's murderer . |
| 30 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |