Example sentences of "did not [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the charter-party , payment was to be in ‘ cash ’ into a London bank by a Sunday , but the charterer 's London bank did not deliver a payment order to the owner 's bank until the Monday . |
| 2 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 3 | According to this source , and obviously excluding those firms who did not give a year of formation , only fifteen firms were established in the 1960s . |
| 4 | It was early yet — not even six o'clock — and they were high on spending money and trying lovely outfits on , so did not give a toss . |
| 5 | AUSSIE tripper John Lambert found a British bank did not give a XXXX when he handed back £1,000 they handed him by mistake . |
| 6 | Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry . |
| 7 | It was nature that had turned her grey , she said , and she did not give a damn . |
| 8 | You did not give a name . ’ |
| 9 | Many members of the Admiralty were furious with their First Lord when the temporary appointment was ratified on November 28 , but Churchill did not give a fig . |
| 10 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |
| 11 | Foreign Minister Theodore Holo disclosed on Nov. 5 that the government was seeking renewed ties with Israel but did not give a timetable for normalizing relations . |
| 12 | In it she asked him to come home , but she did not give a reason . |
| 13 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 14 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 15 | Baldwin turned the question by saying that ‘ several of them were , perhaps , too Conservative and did not want a change . ’ |
| 16 | Having established that his visitors did not want a drink , the businessman poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic . |
| 17 | And in particular , the last governments of the Fourth Republic did not want a repetition of the EDC episode . |
| 18 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 19 | I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . |
| 20 | His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Edwards , of Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict he was killed in action because he did not go out to fight ; he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’ |
| 23 | She did not want a child to walk through life beside her . |
| 24 | The party did not want a repeat of the disastrous ‘ Who Governs ? ’ election of 1974 . |
| 25 | If Elliott did not want a partner , he would have a rival . |
| 26 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 27 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 28 | She did not want a baby . |
| 29 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 30 | He was informed of his rights after arrest and said that he did not want a solicitor . |