Example sentences of "nor did [pron] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did we make much fuss over presents . |
| 2 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 3 | Nor did we come all this way for a christening . |
| 4 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 5 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 6 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 7 | Nor did they have any preconceptions about his personality or politics . |
| 8 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 9 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 10 | Nor did she have much confidence in many of the nannies who now worked at Park House . |
| 11 | Nor did she have any of the pale and slightly apologetic stance of her mother . |
| 12 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |
| 13 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 14 | Nor did she understand this new playful mood of fitzAlan 's . |
| 15 | Jones ' record of that meeting notes that ‘ None of these dates were questioned or challenged by Fleischmann and Pons or anyone present , nor did anyone raise any questions about the proposal-review process . |
| 16 | Nor did it mean such a thing to any of the other administrators prominently associated with it . |
| 17 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 18 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 19 | Nor did it have any lasting effect on morale . |
| 20 | He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism . |
| 21 | Nor did he draw any obvious conclusions when he kept on coming on Tina in bed with other men . |
| 22 | Nor did he do much to temper them . |
| 23 | Nor did he do much else about it . |
| 24 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 25 | The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth . |
| 26 | Unlike the bishop or the archbishop , the abbot had no special prerogatives conferred on him by God , nor did he wield any civic power . |
| 27 | Khrushchev , who had not read it , was no great judge of what would live ; nor did he have any artistic education . |
| 28 | It was clear that he did n't know , nor did he seem much to care ; ‘ Oh it 's probably something or other . |
| 29 | Nor did he see much hope in the extension of parliamentary redress : ‘ any man who will look plain facts in the face will see in a moment that ministerial liability to the censure not in fact by Parliament , nor even by the House of Commons , but by the party majority who keep the Government in office , is a very feeble guarantee indeed against action which evades the authority of the law courts . ’ |
| 30 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |