Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | Tina had never been married , though her mother had never given up hope , and did not give it up now , that a wedding would one day take place . |
2 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
3 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
4 | The contractors did not block them up , and when the reservoir was filled the water from it burst through the old shafts and flooded A's mines . |
5 | That was spiteful and unnecessary but she did not score it out . |
6 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
7 | Philip , as overlord of Brittany , at once claimed custody of Geoffrey 's two daughters , and threatened to invade Normandy if Henry II did not hand them over . |
8 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
9 | ‘ She did not show you up , then ? ’ |
10 | ‘ Darling , they did not follow you about . |
11 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
12 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
13 | ‘ Terry did not string us along and was very open . |
14 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
15 | Elisabeth heard the words but did not take them in consciously . |
16 | But Gran did not take it in . |
17 | Stupidly — but I did have a lot of luggage — cheeses , books for John and my hill boots — I did not take it out with me this trip . |
18 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
19 | Although the Highways Act of 1835 steadily drove pedestrianism off the roads , it did not drive it out of existence . |
20 | He felt automatically for the light switch but did not turn it on . |
21 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
22 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
23 | The other two held their breath , waiting for the inevitable squeak , but the sensitive fingers did not let him down . |
24 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
25 | It did not let him down . |
26 | Her memory did not let her down . |
27 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
28 | Clare waited , but Carolyn did not pick it up again . |
29 | I assume he did not pick it up on Southfields Station ! ’ |
30 | If Zoser did not pick it up , then that was God 's will . |