Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 2 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 3 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 4 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 5 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 6 | He determined the framework and the broad outline , brought 10 specialists with him and acquired a small bureau operation Howden did not want any more . |
| 7 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 8 | She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it . |
| 9 | She did not want any more pretend closeness , any more sham togetherness . |
| 10 | Trees did not make that dry , brittle sound , as if old , dead bones were being rubbed together . |
| 11 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 12 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 13 | In ensuring that these were of comparable standard with that of the universities , the CNAA became inevitably — though its Charter did not make this explicit — ; concerned with those institutional features , beyond the details of the course itself , which affected judgment of the quality of the student experience . |
| 14 | Unfortunately we did not make this clear and we would like to apologise for any embarrassment caused . |
| 15 | However , the clause did not make this clear . |
| 16 | The Pactus Legis Salicae in fact did not contain all Salic law . |
| 17 | But , where the clause did not contain that useful provision , an awkward party ran no risk in simply refusing to appoint a valuer , with the result that the reference could not go ahead and there was no way of obtaining a valuation . |
| 18 | Andrew Collins QC , for the prosecution , said the papers , which include correspondence between a minister and senior civil servants , were immune from disclosure on the grounds of public interest , and that they did not contain any material relevant to the case anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ The key point is that the studies did not contain any specific evidence that the drug was harmful ’ , said the minister . |
| 20 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 21 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 22 | In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing . |
| 23 | Society boss Geoffrey Lister said he did not expect any economic recovery in the immediate future . |
| 24 | Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh announced on Sept. 17 that his investigation into the Iran-contra scandal was nearing its end , and that " in the absence of some new development " he did not expect any further indictments in connection with the affair . |
| 25 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 26 | Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems . |
| 27 | Tess was not surprised at Mrs d'Urberville 's cold manner , and did not expect any more of such a great lady . |
| 28 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 29 | She did not relish all those dishes which memory served up . |
| 30 | The striking out application did not involve any close examination of paragraph 29 of the statement of claim . |