Example sentences of "did [not/n't] see [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | He missed her physical presence too , and dreamed of her oftener now he did not see her . |
2 | So I left her alone , locking the door behind me , and did not see her again ( she developed bronchitis , was taken into the cottage hospital and died soon afterwards ) . |
3 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
4 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
5 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
6 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
7 | The driver and the fireman did not see her . |
8 | The men milked with their hats low over their eyes and did not see her . |
9 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
10 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
11 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
12 | Did not see her ? . |
13 | She was facing the window , but did not see me beyond its screen because she was staring at Matthew McIllvanney who seemed to fill the whole room with his malevolence . |
14 | My move woke him , and he did not see me . |
15 | He did not see me behind the curtain . |
16 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
17 | Thiercelin and Epitot saluted smartly as he passed , but he did not see them , nor even his entourage . |
18 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
19 | ‘ The terms for refunds were on the back of our tickets which meant we did not see them until after we had made the purchase . ’ |
20 | I did not see them . |
21 | For example , even those who did live near their kin did not see them especially often . |
22 | ‘ But because they were so busy with their business , he did not see them as much as he wished . |
23 | But the first generation did not see their opportunities as restricted : migration itself was an optimistic move . |
24 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
25 | In a poignant discussion of the hypothesis that Southern slave owners did not see their slaves as human beings he disagrees : |
26 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
27 | Dorothy did not see her brother again for nine years , and never once returned to the family home in Cockermouth before the death of her father in 1783 . |
28 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
29 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
30 | She did not see him at once , as he stood back from the coiling smoke . |