Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it is true that No 506 failed and did not operate on the Saturday . |
| 2 | In response to the charge and his name and address he merely nodded and did not speak throughout the hearing . |
| 3 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 4 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 5 | All of these last examples are of course one sided and do not benefit the host , but the association between cleaner shrimps and plankton filter-feeding sea cucumbers is one step further removed and borders on parasitism . |
| 6 | In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace . |
| 7 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 8 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 9 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 10 | He saw and did not see the paintings . |
| 11 | She laughed and did not reply , staring out at the trees . |
| 12 | They both laughed and did n't care . |
| 13 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 14 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 15 | also said that when that person , if she married somebody , say fifty years older than her , that they died and did n't leave her to pay . |
| 16 | ( After the fall of the Greek Empire , the knowledge of many arts , including the art of horsemanship , gradually disappeared and did not re-emerge until the sixteenth century . ) |
| 17 | A great magnificent image that I did n't want to use as material for a silly magazine article , but which I just could n't resist sharing with everyone I knew and did n't know . |
| 18 | The only thing I bought and did n't use was a breast pump . |
| 19 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 20 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 21 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 22 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 23 | When I first saw it I was confused by a strange surrealistic image of a place I both did and did not recognise . |
| 24 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |
| 25 | Well , I did and did n't get and now I have all these things . |
| 26 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Remember our Lord was a Jew , ’ said Father Michael , piously , but he remembered and did not forgive . |
| 28 | When firearms became more readily available in the 17th century , interest in archery waned and did not increase again until the skill of the bowman was revived as a sport late in the 18th century . |
| 29 | Marie shrugged and did n't look at him . |
| 30 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |