Example sentences of "did not [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
2 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
3 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
4 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
5 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
6 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
7 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
8 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
9 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |
10 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
11 | She said she did not want any fuss , that she was fine , and everyone over there has been marvellous . ’ |
12 | He promised in the Chamber that he did not want any volunteers to be turned away from offering their service , and I am sure that he will do his best to keep that promise . |
13 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
14 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
15 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
16 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
17 | ‘ Looking back , I 'm glad we did not make any records because we were rubbish . |
18 | This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it . |
19 | Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson . |
20 | Because UPH only received £4m in cash they , in theory , did not make any profit and will not have to pay any capital gains tax . |
21 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
22 | The Greeks at least did not make any attempt to conceal their ignorance of Latin . |
23 | However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day . |
24 | It did not make any sales . |
25 | Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements . |
26 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
27 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
28 | But the man behind the burger deal , cathedral chapter clerk Christopher Owen , said yesterday : ‘ He did not make any objection to this particular promotion . ’ |
29 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
30 | The letter did not contain any reference to Mr. Tee . |