Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] on any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodline Design did not rest on any past laurels ; it was highly solvent and very successful , and it did n't take long for Merrill to discover that Luke was the driving force behind it , and that her initial impression of him as dynamic was something of an understatement . |
| 2 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 3 | When the hon. Gentleman sat on the Standing Committee on the Bill he did not vote on any single occasion against the precise measures to which he now refers . |
| 4 | Lyell instead wanted an empirical theory founded on observation and practical experience that did not depend on any preconceived ideas from the Bible or elsewhere and which provided a methodology a means of explaining geological phenomena . |
| 5 | Pausing there and turning to the judgment , Lord Denman C.J. stated , at p. 682 , that the court did not proceed on any doctrine as to relation of principal and surety . |
| 6 | On the whole , with certain exceptions — such as Egyptian cotton and Indian jute — these economic specialisations did not prove to be permanent , or else , where permanent , they did not develop on any scale comparable to that of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | They did n't comment on any of it . |
| 8 | It did n't fit on any particular page of their diary . |
| 9 | I met , now my husband , and although we liked to go out to dinner together , I still did n't put on any weight . |
| 10 | I regarded this as totally unfair since in my comments I had not picked on any particular individual . |