Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 2 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 3 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 4 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 5 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 6 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 7 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 8 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 9 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 10 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 11 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 12 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 13 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 14 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 16 | In looking back at my records I notice that I did not send you the enclosed form which I have now completed . |
| 17 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 18 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 19 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 20 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 22 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 23 | ‘ I did not find it the most co-operative of neighbourhoods , ’ Morton said wryly . |
| 24 | He did not hear her the first time , she had to repeat what she said . |
| 25 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 26 | Oh I did n't do you the |
| 27 | They did , they did it in the evening but they 're not in the , did n't do it the morning . |
| 28 | ‘ Her mother still did n't tell her the reason for leaving home : she implored Constanza not to ask and made Mena promise not to talk . |
| 29 | ‘ You did n't tell her the state I was in on Saturday night ? ’ he queried , obviously alarmed . |
| 30 | One parent says she 's angry that the school did n't tell her the whole truth about why the head left . |