Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he did not so do indicates he had some other categories in mind as well . |
| 2 | But the way in which the New Critics developed Eliot 's axiom did not entirely do away with the author : instead , by shifting his position from the outside to the inside of the text , they merely justified a shift in methodology from the biographical to the words-on-the-page approach . |
| 3 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 4 | She wanted to open the windows in the bedrooms , which she did not usually do , and opened their bedroom door . |
| 5 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 6 | They did not often do so , and the women had no recorded daughters , only sons . |
| 7 | Two inscriptions from the early fourth century show that it did not always do so ( Tod 103 , 108 = WV 7 , HD 20 ) : they have the unusual opening formula ‘ it seemed good to the Council ’ . |
| 8 | He did not always do that . |
| 9 | Second phase schools should have felt — but did not always do so — the benefits of a process of policy-making which was homogeneous . |
| 10 | She even introduced me to my wife , but she knows she did n't exactly do either me or Rachel a favour that time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't exactly do it for nothing , ’ Nelson said . |
| 12 | ‘ It did n't even do what ‘ Sheep in Fog ’ did . ’ |
| 13 | He did n't even do handjobs . |
| 14 | But he did n't even do that . ’ |
| 15 | You mean go back on them , cos we did n't finish them cos there was three pallets and we did n't even do two . |
| 16 | I see so there would be if he was this would be at the end when you know this was n't he did n't ever do anything like that before he went off to the w w during the war ? |
| 17 | He looked tired , which he did n't usually do . |
| 18 | That surprised me since we did n't usually do things together . |
| 19 | We did n't really do anything with it and certainly did n't get much coverage . |
| 20 | He did n't really do it justice , did he ? |
| 21 | You did n't really do that , that drawing did you ? |
| 22 | And erm , I tried them on , well I , I bought , I mean I bought them and brought them home and a sort of cropped , cropped leggings they did n't really do anything for me . |
| 23 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 24 | In school we did n't really do the actual pie charts but we used compasses . |
| 25 | We did n't always do the same trips . |
| 26 | And going to England one place we did n't enough do you see , so we were going Then we went to Northampton and different places like that , shifting about for a while . |
| 27 | Actors of Dane 's calibre did n't often do favours for unknown playwrights , no matter how old and valued their friendship . |
| 28 | I promised myself I 'd never smoke again and I did n't often do that twice in a morning . |
| 29 | Or perhaps they did n't actually do any work at all . |
| 30 | ‘ The hacker did n't actually do anything . |