Example sentences of "did not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information . |
| 2 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 3 | Their direct-action tactics did not aim at involving large numbers of people in militant action ; they were propaganda stunts designed to attract an audience . |
| 4 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 5 | When he was reviled , he did not revile in return ; When he suffered he did not threaten But trusted to him who judges justly . |
| 6 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 7 | As tension at the count at Hummersknott School mounted , a worried gaggle of counters informed the Returning Officer the number of ballot papers did not tally with the number who had cast votes . |
| 8 | We held an investigation and realised that some of the records held by the accounts departments did not tally with the real situation . |
| 9 | And yet … the sun might shine , but it did not shine in her life . |
| 10 | Wilson in particular did not shine in comparison . |
| 11 | But , in any case , I should have realized that a review of high seriousness like The Criterion , the circulation of which never reached 1,000 copies and I suspect hardly more than 500 , was supported by an intellectual minority whose allegiance did not wane on account of the neglect of a man of whom many may not have heard . |
| 12 | Dons , in those days , did not reckon on buying houses , still less on having mortgages . |
| 13 | We did not reckon on greedy Labour authorities utilising the change to conceal vast increases in public expenditure that they forced on to thousands of unsuspecting electors in our communities , to try to persuade them to change their allegiance from the Conservative party to Labour . |
| 14 | What he did not give in response to the many points made by my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) were absolute guarantees and reassurance for the people who work for the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 15 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 16 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 17 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 18 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 19 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 20 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 21 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 22 | I did not want to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 23 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 24 | He did not want to be small . |
| 25 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 26 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 27 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 28 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 29 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 30 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |