Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 2 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 3 | The income of the vicarage was an average £8 a year , and Carswalle 's successor , who presumably did not enjoy private means , got the more or less average assessment of £6 13s 4d . |
| 4 | He had vague memories of a brother who apparently did not exist any more . |
| 5 | The crowds of buyers , who apparently did not share their view , were moving out now to the lawn where the sale was due to begin in a large marquee . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's hard to believe we cut the first sod here only 15 months ago , ’ smiles John , who naturally did n't go into a project like this blind-folded . |
| 7 | Later on the Paignton to Kingswear branch was closed by BR and was bought up by Dart Valley who obviously did not wish to find another competing railway only 10 miles away . |
| 8 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 9 | He was lonely and longing for someone who perhaps did not exist . |
| 10 | The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days . |
| 11 | Macmillan was an idle man , who just did n't work as Prime Minister , and Douglas-Home was idle . |
| 12 | She turned to Shelley , who deliberately did n't meet her gaze . |
| 13 | Alexander looked at Wilkie who deliberately did not see him . |
| 14 | Besides , I 'd be too shy to ask the way from who had such an obvious contempt for children who still did n't know their way around the school . |
| 15 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 16 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 17 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |
| 18 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 19 | Yet there were others who clearly did not relish James 's rule , having actively opposed him when King , and who did their best to distance themselves from the Jacobite cause after the Revolution , Archbishop Sancroft being the most famous example . |
| 20 | Indeed , the boom in architecture and property development was so great precisely because nothing whatever diverted the flow of capital from what The Builder in 1848 called ‘ one half of the world … on the lookout for investment ’ to ‘ the other half continually in search of eligible family residences ’ into serving the urban poor , who clearly did not belong in the world at all . |
| 21 | ‘ They have a lot of purposes , ’ said Mr Molesworth , who clearly did n't know . |
| 22 | The baby who nearly did n't make it . ’ |
| 23 | that is , it 's just that Mr who really did n't know anything from his and needle and thread was stirring the shit ! |
| 24 | ‘ All right , a sherry would be fine , ’ said Meredith who really did n't like drinking in the middle of the day . |
| 25 | With bids all over the room , as well as on phones , the Baltimore Museum 's $28,000 ( £20,000 ) bid took it beyond the grasp of New York painting dealer Stuart Feld ( who really did n't need it , having nine others ) . |
| 26 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 27 | And then they surrounded Milward 's house and pillaged and put to the sword Milward and other members of the Wimbledon Society who simply did not understand that — ‘ You look as if you 're going to have a thrombie ! ’ said a voice behind him . |
| 28 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 29 | Those who refused to give the figures ranged from tiny building societies , who simply did not have the technology to work out the sum , to large multi-national banks with copious staff and computers to hand . |
| 30 | They 'd always had the power to exhange fines for prison , and it was the police who simply did n't understand the law . |