Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot tried not to look at Gloria 's face . |
| 2 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 3 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 4 | He told hospital matron Elizabeth Proffitt and when Mrs Mawdsley did not appear at work the following Monday , she asked their head office for advice . |
| 5 | But Reagan did not appear at North 's trial , much as North and his lawyers tried ; he did not appear until Poindexter 's , in the spring of 1990 . |
| 6 | Adam did not appear at dinner . |
| 7 | Why , when the King did not arrive at Kinghorn , did Queen Yolande not send out a search-party ? |
| 8 | This signal , 0.413 , did not arrive at Gen McCreery 's Eighth Army headquarters until 0815 hrs on the morning of 14 May . |
| 9 | She did not sing at Covent Garden until the 1983–4 season , performing in Ravel 's L'enfant et les sortilèges . |
| 10 | When I heard that three had died I did not sleep at night I could n't sleep thinking about them . |
| 11 | ‘ Leavis demands moral earnestness : I prefer morality , ’ he once told Kingsley Amis in a characteristically Johnsonian antithesis , adding that he would sooner live among people who did not cheat at cards than among the sort who are earnest about not cheating . |
| 12 | In spite of his expressed desire to soak up atmosphere , he did not feel at home there . |
| 13 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 14 | And administrators who remembered the way their own adolescent energies and rivalries had been worked off in school sports tried unsuccessfully , but with remarkable persistence , to introduce football into the manyattas , believing that they were providing the moran with an attractive alternative to stock-raiding Major Clarence Buxton did not stop at football but — like an enterprising housemaster introducing an Outward Bound programme — organized lion hunts for his moran . |
| 15 | They did anything that the Duke ordered , and did not stop at murder . |
| 16 | Even the highly coloured reports sent in to the Propaganda Ministry had to accept in March 1945 that the crisis of confidence in the leadership did not stop at Hitler , and the point was underlined much more forcefully in final reports from the ‘ opinion research ’ office of the SD . |
| 17 | Those from the Kindertransporte with homes to go to — belonging to relatives , friends or sponsors — or to hostels , did not pause at Dovercourt but went straight to London , to a central distribution point set up by the RCM to the rear of the station concourse . |
| 18 | Turner did not live at Wricklemarsh , but let it to a succession of tenants . |
| 19 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 20 | Gary Kildall , whose Digital Research created the CP/M operating system for the first generation of personal computers , did not jump at IBM 's offer . |
| 21 | Or perhaps police press officers did not work at weekends ? |
| 22 | It was what the shearmen in the woollen manufacture , who did not work at home , regarded as usual . |
| 23 | She did not look at Giles at all as she spoke and the sentences piled one upon another , without restraint , like a flow of thought ; there was even a low level of enjoyment in the sense of release . |
| 24 | He did not look at Maggie and she noted only too well his return to formality . |
| 25 | He did not look at Anna . |
| 26 | He did not look at Anna . |
| 27 | He did not look at Cathy and Linton , who continued talking to each other , but he spoke quietly to me . |
| 28 | It did not look at rape as a social problem nor did it have regard to the difficulties which rape poses for the criminal justice system . |
| 29 | Although she did not look at Jake , she could feel he was watching her and that he knew what had stopped her dead in her tracks . |
| 30 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |