Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided . |
3 | I did not want to believe that . |
4 | And when their voices dropped and silenced , I put my fingers in my ears , for I did not want to hear that , either . |
5 | Indeed , I am sure that the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) did not mean to say that . |
6 | I did not mean to imply that Guitarist had somehow ‘ hoodwinked ’ the public regarding Eric Johnson 's comments on brass vs chrome jackplugs ; if you felt that , I apologise for it . |
7 | Mr. Richards did not seek to support that view and it is clearly contrary to or not adopted in other writings : see , for example , Francis Mann , Foreign Affairs in English Courts ( 1986 ) ; C. Warbrick , ‘ The New British Policy on Recognition of Governments ’ ( 1981 ) 30 I.C.L.Q. 568 ; and indeed the general tenor of Professor Brownlie 's work itself . |
8 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
9 | If we go back socially to the days of the extended family , women did not have to play that role in those days , a women , a woman 's place was very much in the home , looking after the home and not much else . |
10 | Tina Cassan , Britain 's other qualifier for the final , did not have to make that choice , as Genesis was fractionally over the time limit and collected three-quarters of a fault . |
11 | Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends . |
12 | She did not need to have that pointed out to her . |
13 | He had some more coins stitched into his broad leather pouched belt as well as his own money , but he did not wish to use that . |
14 | I did not volunteer to have that perverted into a weapon that will kill or turn innocent people into mindless automata ! ’ |
15 | Charity did n't deal in small talk so she did n't bother to play that game . |
16 | I did n't want to say that — when you chose it . |
17 | I did n't want to say that . |
18 | But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart . |
19 | no , I did n't , I did n't want to say that . |
20 | I did n't want to take that risk . ’ |
21 | She did n't want to answer that question . |
22 | She decided she did n't want to answer that . |
23 | I just did n't want to fill that , I wan na win fair and square |
24 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
25 | She did n't want to do that either . |
26 | Yeah I know I did n't want to do that just at the moment Yep hand on hang on er I 'm just I 'm looking up again close the phone failure what that one there all right oh I was leaving that one open in case somebody rang through do n't if they ring through ca n't they come straight on if I leave it open ? |
27 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
28 | I I was n't even going to do that , I did n't want to do that . |
29 | We did n't want to do that . ’ |
30 | We did n't want to do that . |