Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the industry did not yet look on training as an accepted way of improving production , income , living standards , etc . |
| 2 | Although the issue of fraud trials was one in which Mrs Thatcher also took a personal interest , she did not normally intervene on the details of criminal policy . |
| 3 | Having reached this agreement , he allowed the king to take his time , and he did not even insist on returning to England , but renamed at Bec until a settlement had been reached . |
| 4 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 5 | The word ‘ new ’ did not actually appear on the order form but nevertheless it was clear from the form that the car would come either from the manufacturer 's stock at the factory or off the production line . |
| 6 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 7 | However , Sophian and Huber ( 1984 ) found that when the causal task involved a larger number of conflicting cues , three-year-olds did not consistently rely on temporal priority cues , whereas five-year-olds did . |
| 8 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 9 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 10 | At least they bloody started it and they just did n't fucking jump on the bandwagon like everybody else . |
| 11 | ‘ It did n't officially go on the market . |
| 12 | And they did n't really decide on what the message was going to be , erm , they just decided to start checking lines , getting words out on what the charity was going to be , they split that up quite well . |
| 13 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
| 14 | Humans did n't often tread on other humans . |
| 15 | We did n't actually call on Old Sidney — according to my mage that would n't be ‘ politic ’ . |