Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 2 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 3 | Erm was it only you that he phoned not to bring any scripts . |
| 4 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 5 | Bathsheba tried not to show any expression on her face . |
| 6 | She 'd not given any address but the stamp had a WC1 postmark . |
| 7 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 8 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 9 | He quietly vowed not to accept any food from the Tower buttery or kitchens . |
| 10 | She said the KGB minder in her own squad followed her everywhere but claimed not to speak any English . |
| 11 | Paul ‘ determined not to know any thing … save Jesus Christ and him crucified . ’ ( 1 Corinthians 2 v. 2 ) . |
| 12 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 13 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 14 | Sir Dick was criticised for helping various spy authors with their books but the Government decided not to take any action . |
| 15 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 16 | My mum and my stepdad decided not to have any children . |
| 17 | He also undertook not to publish any paperback version of ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ as long as it gave offence . |
| 18 | Later she knew not to make any sound , otherwise the nurse said , ‘ Do n't you want to get better ? ’ |
| 19 | In the interests of unity , Constantine deliberately blurred distinctions between Christianity , Mithraism and Sol Invictus — deliberately chose not to see any points of contention between them . |
| 20 | In the end one dared not mention any topic at all . |
| 21 | On Dec. 6 the Ukrainian parliament voted not to sign any Union Treaty with the Soviet Union , following a declaration made the previous day that the 1922 Treaty creating the Soviet Union , and any further Soviet constitutional treaties , were null and void in relation to Ukraine . |
| 22 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 23 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 24 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 25 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 26 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
| 27 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
| 28 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 29 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 30 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |