Example sentences of "did not [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , she did not want some of Harry 's handful of flour and dal ! |
| 2 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 3 | However , the assessment schedules produced by all of the four projects did not fulfil some of the essential requirements of the new legislation , particularly in relation to comprehensiveness , user and carer participation , and a needs-led approach . |
| 4 | There were some problems with the age of actors to suit characters but this did not impede some splendid performances . |
| 5 | There were few of these in which did not float some ghastly , stinking fragment of humanity . |
| 6 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 7 | There were comparable difficulties elsewhere , particularly in Georgia and Uzbekistan , and indeed there were few parts of Soviet territory that did not experience some form of nationalist self-consciousness combined with pressure for a greater degree of cultural and economic autonomy . |
| 8 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
| 9 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 10 | The discovery reduced the discrepancies in Uranus 's orbit to the level of arcseconds , comparable with the noise in the observations , but that did not stop some astronomers from predicting a planet beyond Neptune , of a few Earth masses . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 12 | Sri Lankans did not view some of the reasons behind the overturning of convictions as just . |
| 13 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 14 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 15 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 17 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 18 | Considering that the body depends on sensitive electrical interactions to function , it would be surprising if these diverse electrical frequencies did not have some effect on us , whether detrimental or otherwise . |
| 19 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 20 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 21 | In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she gasped , and unable to believe that he should think such a thing , let alone say it , she was not sure she did not lose some of her colour . |
| 23 | Attlee 's 1946 directive did not solve some of the more important machinery-of-government problems of his administration . |
| 24 | Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy . |
| 25 | Up to a point diversity is good ; local government would be useless if it did not permit some variety and flexibility in provision . |
| 26 | The supporters did not release some of the best young talent in Ulster ( Strain , Millar , Keery , McCaffrey , etc ! ) |