Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Remember Sherlock Holmes 's clue of the dog that did n't bark in the night ? ) |
| 2 | ‘ The dog was curious because it did n't bark in the night , when it should have done . |
| 3 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 4 | That night , Jim was a bit happier and did n't think about the previous worries . |
| 5 | We did n't think about the fact that the ups and downs of running a business could mean an end to a friendship — in fact , we 're probably better friends for it . ’ |
| 6 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't think beyond the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ I — er — did n't think at the time that you 'd be that interested in — ’ |
| 9 | They did n't think in the right way . |
| 10 | When I first moved to Wallingford I was told by a local resident ( in no uncertain terms ) what would happen to me if did n't continue with the tradition of putting a Christmas Tree on the silo top . |
| 11 | Erm , so it is , how shall I put it , erm , unfortunate I think , in , in Shropshire 's view , that they did n't continue along the distribution on the previous basis . |
| 12 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |
| 13 | He still left home at eight each morning , but he did n't head for the office , he wandered round town , visiting anywhere that was free such as the library , or even the museums ; the guides came to know him , one even greeted him when he entered . |
| 14 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 15 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |
| 16 | ‘ He did n't care for the law . |
| 17 | " Well , I did n't care for the way you were standing there ringing the bell . |
| 18 | Mother never stopped telling me she did n't care for the lax morals that had become so fashionable since the outbreak of the war . |
| 19 | Philip did n't care about the collar . |
| 20 | He did n't care about the blanket on the ground . |
| 21 | He had said she did n't care about the stupidities of convention . |
| 22 | He did n't care about the effect it had on the rest of us . |
| 23 | They did n't care about the home . |
| 24 | He did n't care about the Masai . |
| 25 | I wanted to destroy it and I did n't care about the pain . |
| 26 | We did n't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it . |
| 27 | He did n't speak on the walk back . |
| 28 | ‘ I wonder why he did n't speak of the Friar ? ’ |
| 29 | Erm you notice here that the amount is , did n't alter in the last budget . |
| 30 | The soldier walked ahead of me , holding his sword in his left hand so that it did n't clatter against the stairs . |