Example sentences of "did not even [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 2 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 3 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 4 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 5 | A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech . |
| 6 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 7 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 8 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 9 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 10 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 11 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 12 | He knew nothing about the world — his children did n't even go to school . |
| 13 | Did n't even go to the committee dear , this one |
| 14 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher did n't even talk to me . |
| 16 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |
| 17 | But shops showed no interest and the big soap companies did n't even reply to her letters . |
| 18 | In the end I did n't even walk to Cambridge , but went ignominiously by bus from Royston , where we stopped for lunch . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't even want to be at the presentation . |
| 20 | But she could n't draw back now ; she did n't even want to . |
| 21 | He did n't even want to be with the harem . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They did n't even speak to me , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The referee did n't even speak to him . |
| 24 | I saw her briefly , and , I did n't even speak to her other than to say hello . |
| 25 | The idea that she might be able to leave with him did n't even occur to her . |
| 26 | Well I did n't even , well he did n't even occur to me actually I must admit . |
| 27 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 28 | I suspected that Gillian was getting rid of Wyatt as a way of breaking with her father ( who did n't even come to the wedding , incidentally ) and pointing out to her Mum what she ought to have done years before . |
| 29 | I mean the old man was well in his seventies and he , he was secondary , you see he never even er , he , he did n't even come to the funeral , Clifford 's funeral and Margaret was very bitter about that . |
| 30 | I say , if it was midnight Joey went round with that , I did n't even have to . |