Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice people did n't think about such things , which was why child-abuse and wife-beating went frequently unremarked . |
| 2 | Men did n't think about such things . |
| 3 | But he did n't think about that now . |
| 4 | Love Lane ( what a place for a cop shop ! ) was n't actually the nearest nick to where we were , but I did n't think about that . |
| 5 | I did n't think about that . |
| 6 | Well I , I did n't think about that , all three without was easier , but I think four with would have been better . |
| 7 | You did n't think at all , ’ John said . |
| 8 | Was happily pottering about there , did my own thing , I had to open about nine cards when I got home , I did n't think at all |
| 9 | Well I I I mean there i thinking back , I did n't think at that stage , I hope I 'm right about this , th that I had any idea that Geoffrey Howe was going to resign . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 11 | Well erm er , well yes of course , I did n't think of that . |
| 12 | We did n't think of that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She did n't think of that , ’ said my mother . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't think of that . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , under the Conservatives that , if you 'd been under Labour you would of lost about four hundred did n't think of that though did you , did n't think your own son |
| 16 | You did n't think of that did you ? |
| 17 | I did n't think of that . |
| 18 | I did n't think of that you know |
| 19 | Now I did n't think of that because again I was fairly new , but the lad that was doing the job said Oh do n't worry Neal we 'll sort this out . |
| 20 | And , whereas , her father he , he did n't think of much of the girls at all did he ? |
| 21 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
| 22 | The idea , too , that ‘ people did n't think like that then ’ is significant ; we do not know , of course , how many people at a certain point in a history were ( for example ) feminists , who were prevented from writing about their views , or whose writings have been forgotten or lost . |
| 23 | But Shirley Millings , who left school at fifteen , did n't think like this . |
| 24 | Mark Kozelek did n't sleep at all last night . |
| 25 | Did n't sleep at all last night . |
| 26 | She did n't sleep at all that night . |
| 27 | I did n't sleep at all until , one daybreak , I sank into unconsciousness for several hours . |
| 28 | I did n't sleep at all last night . |
| 29 | Did n't sleep at all last night actually . |
| 30 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me you did n't sleep with any of them ? ’ |