Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved a privilege we did not altogether enjoy as , at that time , the road over Encumeada pass was only a very narrow shelf which fell away on our side of the road ! |
| 2 | The French Algerian and Congo wars were in full swing ; performance art did not yet exist but she incorporated tear gas for the grand finale of her shooting performances . |
| 3 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 4 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 5 | Emma had taught her to read before school , and now the chest was piled with golden and rose fairy books , Winnie the Pooh , Alice in Wonderland , and other things which perhaps Ruth did not yet grasp or should not yet be reading : Lord of the Flies , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , Cleopatra . |
| 6 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 7 | The proximity did not however imply that the Prime Minister was moving amongst the King 's friends . |
| 8 | The father did not immediately discover that the mother had returned to Canada but he did so in December 1990 . |
| 9 | At the door he did not immediately turn and grab the handle but put his hand behind him and slowly opened the door and in doing so had to walk forward a step . |
| 10 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 11 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 12 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 13 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 14 | The small Year Niner , who did not even realise that there were taps in room 19 , never mind streams , is a little interested by this offer but explains that her Mum never lets her drink the water at school and always provides her with a carton of fruit juice which keeps her going through the day . |
| 15 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 16 | Accustomed and unaware , they did not even shiver as their warm bare " shoulders met its blue embrace . |
| 17 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 18 | Maggie was still screaming above her and she did not even notice until later that her own blood was added to the devastation of Maggie 's attic . |
| 19 | He did not even know that most of the Scottish host had already cast off everything that weighed it down , and taken to flight , acknowledging the truth of this meeting . |
| 20 | She did not even know whether the occupants of Cherry Cottage had any connection with the dead girl . |
| 21 | Rufus did not even know if animal bones shared the same names as those of humans . |
| 22 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 23 | He did not even consider that she might hold the contrary viewpoint . |
| 24 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 25 | Most authoritative commentators on British politics in the period between the Reform Acts , 1832 and 1867 did not just describe and explain our politics . |
| 26 | The Crown Prosecution Service did not just consider whether a bare prima facie case was enough , but whether there was a proper chance of conviction on reliable evidence . |
| 27 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 28 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 29 | This change should enable many members to obtain a discount who did not previously qualify whilst the discount for existing alarms is also being increased . |
| 30 | For example , Riseholme , near Lincoln , did not finally disappear until the late sixteenth century-ecclesiastical records show that it still existed in the 1520s , but that by 1575 it had no facilities for burials . |