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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ .
2 After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about .
3 Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback .
4 The reply of the Government representative , Viscount Gage , was very unsatisfactory , in that it had been prepared beforehand , and did not at all deal with the points raised by Lord Charnwood .
5 Here he went astray , for Tilda did not at all like being so small .
6 But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch .
7 There seemed the suspicion of an implied threat here that Mr Crumwallis did not at all like .
8 H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’
9 For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ .
10 Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise .
11 If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused , because his premises does not require one , or did not at that point require a fire certificate .
12 Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage .
13 ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths .
14 Section 4(1) ( b ) stipulates , " that the person proceeded against did not at any time supply the product to another " .
15 The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government .
16 He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred .
17 Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) .
18 Co-ordination was still seen as predominantly a ‘ top-down ’ process by planners and did not at this time focus upon activities at the client level .
19 Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ .
20 Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease .
21 On the surface he was a very matter-of-fact man , and he did n't at all like rehearsing ; but he was a good musician .
22 ‘ You did n't at all , ’ Matilda said .
23 It was like the sudden revelation of a pattern where none had been suspected , and I did n't at all care for it .
24 Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan .
25 ‘ I see , ’ he commented quietly , and , from what Leith could gather , he did n't at all like what he saw .
26 ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she shouted , and did n't at all like the smile that crossed his features .
27 Yeah but , yeah it 's funny cos , cos it 's funny cos I got that new Lego you did n't at all .
28 You did n't at that stage I do n't think make any sort of link towards referrals and introductions .
29 I did n't at any time actually offer it to her . ’
  Next page