Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Funnily enough , they did n't think a great deal of you ! ’ he snarled . |
| 2 | Bob took the point ; Morris did n't think the Western was funny . |
| 3 | But just as quickly she remembered herself , barely thirteen , standing up in class and saying she did n't think the Catholic Church was fair and the nun , red in the face , asking who did she think she was to question the Pope 's teaching . |
| 4 | I did n't think the old stuff was that bad . |
| 5 | I also told Sam that I did n't think the main Benskin 's board would approve the switch to management . ’ |
| 6 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 7 | Needless to say , these events did n't silence the persistent drumming , though they did sometimes drown it out . |
| 8 | Erm , but I did n't prime the previous speaker who spoke so nicely er , about N C V O even though we do seem to be in a mutual admiration society . |
| 9 | Even if his explanation was true , it did n't excuse the other counts against him . |
| 10 | Fernando Serra had n't and did n't care a hairy monkey for her ! |
| 11 | No one can sack us , no one can take our pensions away , in Spycatcher three of us decided in favour of Mrs Thatcher and against the editor of The Sunday Times , and those three of us did n't care a damn for the editor of The Sunday Times . |
| 12 | And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ? |
| 13 | This time Lacuna did n't scream an abusive reply . |
| 14 | She did n't speak a single word to me all the way back here , and she 's in foul form downstairs at the moment . |
| 15 | If that was true , it occurred to her that he had n't really believed what she had told him tonight , but whether he did nor not , it did n't alter the central fact that they were never going to be lovers . |
| 16 | A final demand from the Gas Board and a threat from Glasgow Public Libraries if I did n't return The Maltese Falcon and pay my seventeen-and-six fine they 'd permanently withdraw my ticket and cut my left hand off . |
| 17 | I indicated to the Bishop when I agreed to take the canonry that he did n't possess the personal qualities I require in my subordinates . |
| 18 | I did n't wear a short skirt for ages after that . |
| 19 | He did n't wear a white jacket like hospital doctors but a heavy greatcoat with the collar turned up and boots dampened with slush . |
| 20 | As Christmas and birthdays brought more Gortex , my confidence grew and developed into mild snootiness about people who did n't wear the right things on the hill . |
| 21 | However , this Harlequin did n't wear the customary mask . |
| 22 | They were all sat on boxes in front of the Family Stand , making sure toddlers did n't stage a mass sit-down protest on the pitch . |
| 23 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 24 | But after the shower she did n't pass the usual scanner test . |
| 25 | got a very low test statistic either in terms of kie or F right so we have n't reached but the model is still a poor model because we do n't have erm er stable parameters , right , so you would actually reject this model as it stands , alright , because it did n't pass the diagnostic test statistics but there is no point generating parameters w if they , if they are not constant and you 're gon na say elastic demand is one point four six or really it it 's ranged between minus three plus , plus six over the sample , so you put estimate means so it must have constant parameters . |
| 26 | This looked fine and fair on the wall map down at the Town or County Hall but did n't reflect the real world where convenience of travel is n't always based on distance . |
| 27 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 28 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 29 | You did n't do a similar assignment for the inner route north ? |
| 30 | er when you were in the trade like mine if you did n't do a good job the man never come back to you , there was a , there was a blacksmith farrier in every village ! |