Example sentences of "did [adv] ring " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the pleasures of Saturday working was that the phone did not ring all the time . |
| 2 | ‘ It just did not ring true , ’ said a Paris police spokesman . |
| 3 | I waited and waited , but she still did not ring me . |
| 4 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 5 | Even when he failed to ring her later in the week , as she had commanded him to do , once he had sorted life to meet her expectations , she did not ring him . |
| 6 | It did not ring . |
| 7 | The bells did not ring . |
| 8 | She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals . |
| 9 | ‘ Our father was very strict , Spanish nobility at its most severe , and this place did not ring with laughter . |
| 10 | ‘ Fine , ’ Rosemary replied , but when , unusually , she appeared to have nothing else she wanted to chat about , yet did not ring off , Leith did a swift two-and-two calculation , and the answer she got told her that Rosemary wanted , in her parents ' absence , to talk about Travis . |
| 11 | ‘ I only did n't ring last night because I could n't find you , sir . |
| 12 | Mrs Wright did n't ring the bell or knock , she took a key out of her pocket and opened it . |
| 13 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 14 | His confident appearances in the music press just did n't ring true . |
| 15 | The telephone did n't ring in Theodore Lawton 's house . |
| 16 | ‘ We were very alarmed when Sean told us that they needed to look at you again , and you did n't ring a second time … so we were afraid … . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And I did n't ring Em because it 's hard enough to get a job in any place as a married woman without having hysterical daughters ringing up crying for Mamma . |
| 18 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 19 | Each time there was a pause in his routine and he had time to think , the Captain was reminded that there were a good many things about this case that did n't ring true . |
| 20 | I promised to ring him , if he did n't ring me first , reassured her again that everything was fine and that she did n't need to drive over to look after me . |
| 21 | But I did n't ring you for a critical appraisal of my work . |
| 22 | You did n't ring . ’ |
| 23 | That 's why I did n't ring the bell . ’ |
| 24 | Something did n't ring true there . |
| 25 | " I 'd as soon you did n't ring there , Louise . " |
| 26 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 27 | ‘ He did n't ring you to cancel the club ? ’ |
| 28 | She toyed briefly with a picture of Luke lying , bound and kidnapped , in some distant , cut-off retreat , but it did n't ring true . |
| 29 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 30 | Something about it disturbed him — not the obvious facts of its shock and tragedy — but some discordant element , something that did n't ring true . |