Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 2 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 3 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 4 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 5 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 6 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
| 7 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 8 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 9 | But it did not make him more in charity with Chips Salter . |
| 10 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 11 | Only Robert McNamara of the top team had real doubts , but he did not make them public . |
| 12 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 13 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 14 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 15 | It has always been one of my regrets that life did not make it possible for me to know this quiet , strong artist and teacher better . |
| 16 | Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway . |
| 17 | I emphasise ‘ encourage ’ because the leadership did not make it compulsory . |
| 18 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
| 19 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 20 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 21 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 22 | ( 5 ) That he failed to explain the transaction properly to the wife and in particular did not make it clear to her that the charge attached to her beneficial interest in the property ( the home ) as well as her husband's. ( 6 ) In the circumstances under ( 4 ) Mr. Williams was negligent in his dealings with Mrs. Perry . |
| 23 | If Casaubon had in mind something more precise than an alternative to the disguised Machiavellianism of the contemporary Tacitists , he did not make it clear . |
| 24 | The publicity did not make it clear what was actually happening . |
| 25 | The headmaster did not make it clear whether this was because Hasan might , at any moment , start chucking thunderbolts around the place . |
| 26 | It was as wide as she recalled , rationality did not make it smaller . |
| 27 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 28 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 29 | The submission , however , was not accompanied by any governmental endorsement or comment , bar the statement that Mendès-France did not regard it necessary to resign if the motion was defeated . |
| 30 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |