Example sentences of "she did [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But she did not guess this was how it would be on her first morning .
2 She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss .
3 She did not do that , Headmistress ! ’
4 The family member will say that these things should help , that they are only part of normal family commitment and civilised behaviour and that , if he or she did not do these things , then the primary sufferer might die .
5 She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him .
6 ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading .
7 She did not credit this .
8 She did not dispute that , merely standing before me , head bowed , yet sneaking side glances at me and round about .
9 She did not conduct any physical examination .
10 But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that .
11 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 .
12 She did not want another man in her life .
13 One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant .
14 No , she did not want some of Harry 's handful of flour and dal !
15 She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it .
16 She did not want any more pretend closeness , any more sham togetherness .
17 She said she did not want any fuss , that she was fine , and everyone over there has been marvellous . ’
18 She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town .
19 But she did not break that concentrated stare .
20 Blanche smiled and said she did not mean that , but the reference to Colombian cocaine barons and the mafia .
21 Margaret Irwin told the Royal Commission on Labour in 1893 that she did not think many women were " at case " outside Edinburgh . "
22 She knew they mated for life , and though she did not think much of married bliss , yet she approved of constancy .
23 Later I gathered she did not think much of my manners .
24 This she well understood , though she did not think much of ‘ Abroad ’ .
25 But as a pensioner she did not think much of his performance in the Commons yesterday .
26 They were informed by the school 's governors that each daughter had been refused a place because ‘ she did not meet any of the admission criteria . ’
27 She did not relish all those dishes which memory served up .
28 She did not abandon this policy even after the debacle at Athens , when her deposition of the anti-Spartan Pisistratids in 510 resulted in a regime even more vigorously hostile to herself , which she tried and failed to overthrow in its turn .
29 Similarly , while Clara Collet felt that all women should have the means to earn their own living , she did not anticipate that married women would use it .
30 She did not register any shock .
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