Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | There was a Department of Trade and Industry Question Time last month and a debate last week , but the Opposition did not answer those questions . |
4 | The local opposition did not require much effort to undermine state legitimacy on the effects of uranium mining : indeed the state itself contributed strongly to its own delegitimization . |
5 | Er mummy do n't want that I 've had enough |
6 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
7 | Finally , Hank Marvin 's perennially silvery twang and amiable spectacles return once more with ‘ Into The Light ’ , an album featuring covers ranging from Sylvia by Focus to Steely Dan 's Rikki Do n't Lose That Number . |
8 | However , as we noted earlier , most organizations which adopt fund accounting do not keep all their funds completely separate . |
9 | Firms that are hopeful about the future do not take such measures . |
10 | 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves . |
11 | Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations . |
12 | In the other 14 patients , barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction . |
13 | The photograph did n't do much for the man . |
14 | The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients . |
15 | Our study did not have these important advantages . |
16 | Our study did not find any evidence of widespread dissatisfaction among older workers with either their employment or their employer prior to plant closure . |
17 | However , this study did not find any differences in morbidity between the two groups . |
18 | She said then , very quickly , like a trick question to someone in the Yes/No interlude on the Michael Miles Quiz Show : ‘ Marriage Guidance did n't do much for your need to dump , did it ? ’ |
19 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
20 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
21 | Dot did n't want that . |
22 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
23 | The old thick rad did not give enough clearance for a normal or any other type of fan . |
24 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
25 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
26 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
27 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
28 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
29 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
30 | The president did not want this to happen . |