Example sentences of "someone [Wh pn] did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 2 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 3 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 4 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 5 | In this case the innocent purchaser had agreed to buy a car from , as he later discovered , someone who did not own it , on terms that property in the car would pass to him upon payment of the price . |
| 6 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 7 | That paper was abstracted by someone who did not know Polish . |
| 8 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 9 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 10 | There was no point in talking about it to someone who did not know the personalities involved and could not appreciate the circumstances . |
| 11 | ‘ Then it was an accident , or someone who did n't care whom they killed . |
| 12 | Probably with someone who did n't insult his family . |
| 13 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 14 | Have you ever had the experience of being met at an airport or a station by someone who did n't know you ? |
| 15 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ Then , supposing the sherry was poisoned , and supposing it was aimed at you , then it could only have been put there by someone who did n't know your habits ? ’ |
| 17 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |