Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He either failed or did n't take his finals ; I could n't make out which . ’ |
| 2 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 3 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 4 | I I was hoping for something different this year and for a budget that erm er proposed that did n't depend on er us taking far more from reserves than any other party . |
| 5 | Tongues of the holy spirit of the woods , that trembled but did not go out . |
| 6 | But he added that did n't mean it might not affect others and that 's what worried him . |
| 7 | For the last month of his contract , Hanley played but did not train . |
| 8 | Certainly it is true that No 506 failed and did not operate on the Saturday . |
| 9 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 10 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 11 | In response to the charge and his name and address he merely nodded and did not speak throughout the hearing . |
| 12 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 13 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 14 | Fans must not seek consolation from comments such as ‘ … we dominated but did n't score … ’ or ‘ … with a bit of luck we 'll do better … ’ . |
| 15 | For secret reasons she acknowledged but did not understand , she felt bitterly offended . |
| 16 | Roman frowned but did n't answer , and Claudia stood up ; she could n't bear sitting so close to the man she loved and had lost to her sister any longer . |
| 17 | Daine 's statue shook but did n't miss a note . |
| 18 | Dalgliesh nodded but did n't reply . |
| 19 | Sophia sighed but did not answer , for on such an occasion as this there was n't really time to go into whether Penelope particularly liked Rupert Stonebird or not or to embark on the sort of explanation that a man could n't be expected to understand . |
| 20 | Mr B ( who knows Mr A has hearing problems ) replied but did not use his voice at all . |
| 21 | PW agreed but did not inform the court of its previous connections with the case . |
| 22 | His lashes quivered but did n't lift , and she saw that his lips had parted to reveal his teeth . |
| 23 | And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room . |
| 24 | All of these last examples are of course one sided and do not benefit the host , but the association between cleaner shrimps and plankton filter-feeding sea cucumbers is one step further removed and borders on parasitism . |
| 25 | She stiffened but did n't answer immediately , pretending to study her notes with fixed concentration . |
| 26 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 27 | She flinched but did n't move her arm away and the wash of colour behind her clenched eyelids shifted a tone or two down the fifth arc of the spectrum . |
| 28 | In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace . |
| 29 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 30 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |