Example sentences of "nor [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did we have sinks and drains , so all the water had to be carried in and carried out again when it was dirty . |
| 2 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 3 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 4 | Nor did they like Addison 's reconstruction plans : his Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill was eventually passed . |
| 5 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 6 | But Meh'Lindi neither gestured for the hypodermic nor did she abandon Grimm . |
| 7 | Nor did she choose Kylie Minogue , because her clothes are also ‘ a bit boring ’ . |
| 8 | Nor did she see Mick walk towards Jack , or see the expression in his eyes . |
| 9 | Nor did she see coherence over a longer period partly because her own world was a social one dominated by friends , clothes , music and beckoning adulthood . |
| 10 | Nor did it threaten London 's long-term position among the world 's main financial centres . |
| 11 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 12 | The package itself did not control the line , nor did it tell operators and management what action to take when things went wrong . |
| 13 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 14 | Nor did it help Ford that many of his junior officers and a good third of his rankers had seen far more fighting then he had himself . |
| 15 | Even the date of the battle was not wholly fortuitous ; nor did it lack significance for those who fought in it . |
| 16 | Nor did it need riots to provoke these swan-songs for the old traditions . |
| 17 | Nor did it assist macroeconomlc management . |
| 18 | Back at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool , Nigel Lawson 's carefully worded oratory did little to satisfy those wanting Britain to become full members of the European Monetary System sooner rather than later , nor did it provide comfort for others claiming that interest rates had reached their zenith . |
| 19 | Nor did it allow families to get the car very close to the house as they preferred to do . |
| 20 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 21 | It did not look at rape as a social problem nor did it have regard to the difficulties which rape poses for the criminal justice system . |
| 22 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 23 | But he was n't stuck up about this , nor did he ignore Carrie and Nick when other people were there . |
| 24 | Nor did he want botany and zoology , he 'd be no good at them . |
| 25 | He did n't disinherit his son , as some of their more extreme friends advised , nor did he tell Philip 's mother that he had met his son and daughter-in-law in London . |
| 26 | Nor did he cultivate relations with those on Voltai who admired him . |
| 27 | Nor did he seek sanctuary in numbers . |
| 28 | Nor did he take colleague John McEnroe to task for abusing the Swiss non-playing captain , hitting balls at their team and gesturing at them with his racket . |
| 29 | I did n't have another bridesmaid , nor did I have Southall in a cart , which Clare had been training him for , as a surprise for me . |
| 30 | Nor did I dare return until I thought you 'd be safely in bed , and no temptation to me . ’ |