Example sentences of "do not even [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not even expect it . |
| 2 | I understand you did not even pay her for her work . |
| 3 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 4 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 5 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 6 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |
| 7 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps you are , although I did not even imply it . ’ |
| 9 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 10 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 11 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 12 | The wonderful thing about a consumer culture is that the stores have everything you want — more miraculously they have things you did not even know you wanted : like a wall-sized television set . |
| 13 | Indeed , the injured man did not even know he had been bitten until the water turned red as he swam to shore . |
| 14 | ( So : Minter did not even know he had left Rhodes , far less all he had discovered since then — notably about Minter himself . ) |
| 15 | She also exercised much informal influence at court and procured favours for her husband William of Windsor , though when she was accused of corruption in 1376 the king declared that he did not even know she was married , let alone that Windsor was her husband . |
| 16 | Perhaps I did not even know it . |
| 17 | Theresa did not even see it . |
| 18 | When she had finished , she did not even read it through , but thrust it into an envelope , rang furiously for Lyddy and demanded that the letter be taken at once to Trelorne . |
| 19 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 20 | Sometimes they do not even realise they are pregnant . |
| 21 | I do not even acknowledge them as my own . ’ |
| 22 | This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more . |
| 23 | Life on the margins characterises the Christian church in advanced industrial societies , and more often than not we do not even notice it . |
| 24 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 25 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
| 26 | He 's got turkey salad and he did n't even eat it so I took the , the top off it so he could see the turkey in it , then he changed his mind now , I thought he might . |
| 27 | And they listened on the telephone from Nottingham did n't even mention it ! |
| 28 | did n't even mention it ! |
| 29 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 30 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |