Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll never know how I did not tell anybody . |
| 2 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 3 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
| 4 | God knows how I did n't kill myself and the sheer of the whole thing was , it was n't even on the second floor , it was on the ground floor , they were just pulling a . |
| 5 | And something about how she did not speak the French of France because she was from Martinique , and how she was n't rich and she was n't chic . |
| 6 | Mrs Browning said much the same to her , observing how she did not join in when Garibaldi 's victories were being discussed nor did she rejoice . |
| 7 | How she did n't choke on the blatant lie , she had no idea , but she did n't . |
| 8 | ‘ Who are you trying to kid ? ’ he taunted , and somehow he seemed to know , though how she did n't know , that she had been within an ace of responding to him . |
| 9 | Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone else see the game last night ? , how we did n't win 3 or 4–1 , I 'll never know . |
| 11 | and they sort of met and how they did n't hit I do n't know but at the moment it 's , well get the car back today it 's er been away being done , cos somebody smashed into him |
| 12 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 13 | How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live . |
| 14 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 15 | I was impressed with his how he did n't disregard one you know |
| 16 | ‘ How he did n't break his leg , I do not know . ’ |
| 17 | He also remembered the goose pimples that appeared on his arms as the evening grew cooler , and how he did n't suggest they went inside because he was afraid she would say that it was time to go . |
| 18 | They told Jesus how he was getting richer and richer as they got poorer and poorer , and how he did n't have any pity even on people who really could n't afford to pay . |
| 19 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 20 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 21 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 22 | For the most part , the Land Rover milometer was my measure , but there was never a day when I did not walk more . |
| 23 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 24 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
| 25 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |
| 26 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 27 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 28 | I discovered spots in places where I did n't think it was possible to get spots . |
| 29 | I reached the stage where I did n't do the washing or the washing up , I did n't clean the house : it looked like a pigsty . |
| 30 | ‘ I got to the point where I did n't want to play again , ’ he said . |