Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice Husayn did not accept its implications . |
| 2 | It was quite crowded but in her pleasure Rachaela did not mind . |
| 3 | Before mid-summer Baldwin did not believe that the Government could last beyond the autumn , but he was still hoping that he could get his Aix holiday . |
| 4 | 2.10:ONE of the surprises of last season was that former runaway Cesarewitch winner TRAINGLOT did not make an immediate impression at the winter game . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing , ’ Corbett sighed ‘ I just thank God Mistress Agatha did not know you were asleep . |
| 6 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 7 | That winter Maggie did not nourish . |
| 8 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 9 | His Honour Judge Morrell did not rule on the bank 's main contention , which was that since a guarantee card guarantees cheques and a forged cheque is not in fact a cheque , the card is of no significance at all in a transaction if the signature on the cheque is forged , though this is obviously an alternative approach . |
| 10 | Sun France did not choose the survey subjects , he added . |
| 11 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |
| 12 | Alexander 's teacher Aristotle did not share this liking for priests , but his scientific curiosity which was truly universal extended to the wisdom of the East . |
| 13 | As she stood there , heart racing , just for a moment Lisa did not trust herself to answer him . |
| 14 | ‘ What must we do to travel with you ? ’ asked Taliesin , and for a moment Fael-Inis did not reply . |
| 15 | Report from Lothian and Borders Police stating that the volume of traffic on Baberton Mains Drive at its junction with Baberton Mains Wynd did not justify the provision of a School Crossing Patrol . |
| 16 | Someone made a joke Anne did not get , ‘ … only the best , because graded grains make finer flour … ’ |
| 17 | For a moment Sally did not answer . |
| 18 | Just at this moment d'Alembord did not care how late they would be . |
| 19 | She was wearing little or no make-up , so that for a moment Melissa did not recognise her . |
| 20 | All that day Rose did not come back , nor was there any message . |
| 21 | G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 . |
| 22 | In this respect Lenin did not underestimate the importance of creating the political preconditions for the control of bureaucratic structures , a failing of which he is accused by Erick Olin Wright ( 1978 ) . |
| 23 | Moral authority Cameron did not disregard or despise , but he was more concerned with its educative than with its binding power . |
| 24 | Next morning Flavia did not sleep late . |
| 25 | When I went off that morning Bill did not recognize me . |
| 26 | The Athenian Acropolis , defensible , symbolically overbearing , and provided with its own water supply , goes far to explain why Dark Age Attica did not remain like Keos or Euboia , a coalition of small states . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 28 | After their early opportunity Holland did not glimpse another scoring chance until eight minutes before half-time , when Kieft and Koeman combined to set up Berghuis for a hard , low cross which Taffarel could not hold . |
| 29 | Considering the effects of language on delicate sensibilities , John Mortimer — whose main concern had been to keep the Sex Pistols as far away from court as possible — pondered that the word Maidenhead did not appear to cause the inhabitants of that town any problems . |
| 30 | Comic Relief Day did not pass unnoticed at head office on March 12 . |