Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to watch any more , but something made her stay , silent at the window . |
| 2 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 3 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 4 | I did not want to test this out so I took care to keep my changing routine sharp and exact . |
| 5 | Firstly , said the Government , it did not want to stifle all criticism of the way its policies were carried out . |
| 6 | I did not want to take this , but he insisted . |
| 7 | The parents did not want to attend any more sessions and treatment was therefore terminated . |
| 8 | I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that . |
| 9 | However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided . |
| 10 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 11 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 12 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 13 | I did not want to do this and did n't go . |
| 14 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 15 | He did not want to spend another night on his seat in Madison Square . |
| 16 | I did not want to reinforce these characteristics . |
| 17 | He said that even if voters did not want to help any candidate , they should still go to the polling station to register their grievances . |
| 18 | They did not want to know this . |
| 19 | I did not want to know this . |
| 20 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 21 | I did not want to damage these walls by trying to climb over them . |
| 22 | Students did not want to suffer such humiliation even though the new policies were implemented by their government for the betterment of the nation . |
| 23 | I became a Member of the House in 1983 on a promise from various people that we would legislate less , that we did not want to legislate all the time , and that we would examine matters more carefully . |
| 24 | I did not want to show any sign of life . ’ |
| 25 | I did not want to show any sign of life . ’ |
| 26 | I did not want to believe that . |
| 27 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 28 | She did not want to think any more about Ruth . |
| 29 | And when their voices dropped and silenced , I put my fingers in my ears , for I did not want to hear that , either . |
| 30 | Roland did not want to hear another long speech from Blackadder about Beatrice Nest 's long-delayed edition of Ellen Ash . |