Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [to-vb] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One did not need to know why the ovens were so ugly , so very ugly . |
| 2 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 3 | The film did not attempt to explain why the Americans went to war in Vietnam , but surpassed any previous film in examining the pressures to which the American soldier was subjected and his reaction to them . |
| 4 | This sort of learning ignores underlying structure of examples , and it does not try to explain why the regularities occur . |
| 5 | She did not pretend to know how the ‘ magic ’ worked , but she knew this much . |
| 6 | Get yourself on ServiceCare and part of the deal means you do n't have to remember when the service is due . |
| 7 | ‘ He did n't seem to know where the hotel entrance was so my husband pulled over and pointed it out to him . |