Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] a [noun sg] " 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 Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry .
6 It was nature that had turned her grey , she said , and she did not give a damn .
7 You did not give a name . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 In it she asked him to come home , but she did not give a reason .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Baldwin turned the question by saying that ‘ several of them were , perhaps , too Conservative and did not want a change . ’
14 Having established that his visitors did not want a drink , the businessman poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic .
15 And in particular , the last governments of the Fourth Republic did not want a repetition of the EDC episode .
16 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) .
17 I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight .
18 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 . ’
19 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 . ’
20 ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’
21 She did not want a child to walk through life beside her .
22 The party did not want a repeat of the disastrous ‘ Who Governs ? ’ election of 1974 .
23 If Elliott did not want a partner , he would have a rival .
24 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 .
25 She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband .
26 She did not want a baby .
27 He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m .
28 He was informed of his rights after arrest and said that he did not want a solicitor .
29 During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’
30 Upon contacting the police station , that solicitor was told that C did not want a solicitor .
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