Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children ; one dared not think of the children . |
| 2 | I was making heavy weather of it but dared not rest for the cold . |
| 3 | It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information . |
| 4 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 5 | As tension at the count at Hummersknott School mounted , a worried gaggle of counters informed the Returning Officer the number of ballot papers did not tally with the number who had cast votes . |
| 6 | We held an investigation and realised that some of the records held by the accounts departments did not tally with the real situation . |
| 7 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 8 | The term ‘ ecology ’ could be used as an umbrella to cover a wide range of research traditions that did not interact at the detailed level , but which could be seen to deal with one aspect or another of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 9 | Dick Crossman , like myself , was a Wykehamist but did not benefit from the outstanding facilities for scientific education that were available at Winchester . |
| 10 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 11 | The situation has been further complicated by the fact that she did not belong to any structures and therefore did not benefit from the discipline , counseling and collectivity of the Mass Democratic Movement . |
| 12 | He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money . |
| 13 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |
| 14 | The brown carpet was cigarette-burned and none too clean , but at least it did not clash with the shabby beige of the walls . |
| 15 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 16 | So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council . |
| 17 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 18 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 19 | Hazel did not care for the look of the trees . |
| 20 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 21 | Superintendent Robertson did not care about the mutterings from the lower ranks against her strict disciplinarian attitude . |
| 22 | They did not care about the burst tyre — all 14 inches and $400 of it — and could hardly be bothered to check the rest of the car . |
| 23 | He did not care about the money . |
| 24 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 25 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 26 | He really did not care about the effect of his actions . |
| 27 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 28 | She came round the corner , this tiny thing who did not reach to the top of the bed board even with the extension of the umbrella . |
| 29 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 30 | Only 4 amino acids did not match with the human sequence , whereas 9 amino acids did not match with mouse peptide . |