Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 2 | Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight . |
| 3 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 4 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 5 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 6 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 7 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 8 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 9 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 10 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 11 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 12 | Despite heavy traffic , it did not fit in with British Railway 's policy , and also it suffered from Union intransigency. tickets were printed by the NER and its successors , and followed their standard designs . |
| 13 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 14 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 15 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 16 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 17 | The hold of the state and party ‘ did not extend in to every family ’ and some sections of society ‘ maintained a certain autonomy ’ . |
| 18 | I think they began to realise my destiny did not tie in with theirs . |
| 19 | He did not turn in at the door of number thirty-seven , however . |
| 20 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 21 | A excellent example of his less than 100% commitment was at the Ispwich match when a ball flew across the box and he did not dive in after it . |
| 22 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 23 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 24 | Declarations did not come in until 1889 , so that Stoddart 's innings was three years before , and that of Collins 10 years after . |
| 25 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 26 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 27 | If the message did n't sink in on a Sunday a range of weeknight meetings reinforced it . |
| 28 | I was furious , and hurt , but it did n't sink in at first . |
| 29 | ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening . |
| 30 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |