Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 2 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 3 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 4 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 5 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 6 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 7 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 8 | Thank you for doing a talk I did not feel up to . |
| 9 | To excuse my ineptitude I did not enlighten him . |
| 10 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 11 | She said , with a flippancy she did not feel , ‘ Are you thinking in terms of hours , perhaps ? |
| 12 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 13 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 14 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 15 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |
| 16 | From the king 's point of view these schemes had many attractive features , but in practice they did not work . |
| 17 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 18 | He chuckled , pretending to a lightness he did not feel . |
| 19 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 20 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 21 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 22 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 23 | He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit . |
| 24 | However , there are still many who feel that Beattie is the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice and that he has served almost 20 years for a crime he did not commit . |
| 25 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 26 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 27 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 28 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 29 | In fact when the Daily Mail launched an appeal for an anti-red ambulance it did not raise sufficient money to send even one to the Spanish fascists . |
| 30 | His fellow bishops addressed him as ‘ lord ’ ( a compliment he did not reciprocate ) . |