Example sentences of "did [not/n't] do so " in BNC.

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1 He did not do so .
2 They did not do so .
3 The Government was tempted to seek alternative partners in the Commonwealth and Europe , but did not do so because the Americans had so much more to offer if the MacMahon restrictions could be circumvented or ameliorated .
4 That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ .
5 They had no need to speak and they did not do so .
6 To Mary , reading that if she did not do so , ‘ this pre-eminence wherein ye are placed shall be your dejection to torment and pain everlasting ’ , it looked more like the kind of bullying to which , on his own account , he would later subject her daughter .
7 We group them into species merely as a convenience ; if we did not do so , we could not give them names : hence ‘ nominalism ’ .
8 The bailiffs of the town were ordered by the court to produce them , but did not do so .
9 Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so .
10 It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done .
11 Even if he did not do so by personal choice , the execution would doubtless be ordered from Washington as a matter of course .
12 Added to her humiliation was the knowledge that some of her friends , who had seen the incident , could have helped her but did not do so .
13 Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another .
14 Nonetheless , although Wolfgang ends his letter ( dated 4 April ) by expressing the desire to come to his dying father 's arms ‘ as soon as is humanly possibly ’ , he did not do so .
15 Many companies in the Heavy Electrical Equipment conspiracy did not dismiss ‘ guilty executives ’ ( for they had merely been doing their job ) but even those who did , did not do so with the intention of ruining them .
16 Ironically , Britain was the first state to ratify the Convention , while France , for example , did not do so until 1974 .
17 Kellmer Pringle , for example , attacks the idea ( presumed still commonly held ) that children are comparable with other possessions over whom parents may exercise exclusive rights ; Tizard objects to the way in which parents were able to prevent others from providing permanent care for their children , although they did not do so themselves .
18 He did not do so but remained on the southern taxiway , embarked his passengers with the engine running and then executed a wide left turn through 180° to face west back down the taxiway .
19 Speculation has raged as to whether he did privately support rearmament but the likelihood is that he did not do so before the start of the Korean War .
20 The United States would be in violation of its commitments to the parties if it did not do so , but would be in violation of general international law with respect to third parties .
21 The Court was not asked to consider the effects of this violation and did not do so .
22 On ministerial appointments for instance , while he made MacDonald change his intentions in a number of cases , he did not do so without occasional complaint front the Prime Minister , and continuing give and take between the two leaders .
23 But he did not do so immediately .
24 She was nervous that he might change his mind at the last minute , but he did not do so .
25 It did not do so , but — with minimal discussion of the implications — it enacted ( in s.6(c) ) that nothing in the foregoing sections restricted liability for contempt of court ‘ in respect of conduct intended to impede or prejudice the administration of justice . ’
26 Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) .
27 But it did not do so .
28 Parliament could by legislation have provided for the revocation or variation of an injunction , but did not do so in section 39 .
29 The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either .
30 He did not do so and the fire spread and damaged the plaintiff 's property .
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