Example sentences of "nor did [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna .
2 Politics apart , Mosley and Joyce had little enough in common , nor did they greatly like one another personally .
3 At no time , not even vaguely , had such a notion occurred to her , nor did she even think that he was not as other men .
4 At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors .
5 The Santa Cruz Operation has reversed itself on what to name its SCO Forum ‘ Product of the Year ’ and has gone with Applix Inc after getting complaints that Clarity Inc , its first pick , was not delivering on the SCO platform nor did it even have such an animal in beta : SCO is kind of lax in its standards .
6 Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services .
7 In cell culture conditions , however , in which exogenous EGF can readly be shown to down regulate its receptor and start hepatocyte DNA synthesis , TAGH showed no ability to down regulate the receptor , nor did it competitively inhibit EGF binding .
8 It was never put into words , nor did it entirely dampen their blistering exchanges .
9 Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established .
10 Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board .
11 As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it .
12 He showed no surprise at her obviously unsuccessful attempt to run , nor did he even comment on it .
13 Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission .
14 Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission .
15 Nor did he particularly care .
16 Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest .
17 Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother .
18 Nor did he ever measure more energy in the bangs and heat than he put in from the electricity supply .
19 Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives .
20 But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen .
21 He never sought to crush you , nor did he ever take refuge in insult or invective .
22 Nor did I even suspect its existence , ’ said Connon .
23 In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal .
24 My continuing admiration for his work is not diminished by the fact that I have never received it , nor did I really expect it .
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