Example sentences of "[adj] did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know I 'll wake up in the morning and think this did n't really happen , but I am thrilled to bits . ’ |
| 32 | This did n't go down too well . |
| 33 | This did n't get a good response . |
| 34 | DEC says this did n't allow it sufficient time to evaluate the proposals but says it supports all such unified Unix efforts and promises to make its position clear this week . |
| 35 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 36 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 37 | This did n't happen in the ‘ good old days ’ . |
| 38 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 39 | But this did n't necessarily mean , from my point of view , that we had to go around with Oliver . |
| 40 | Unfortunately , this did n't seem to be the right thing to say either . |
| 41 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 42 | But this did n't deter Sam at all , and three days later he was pacing in the kitchen while Letty Carew and Jane Polwhele assisted his wife in the delivery of a daughter . |
| 43 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 44 | ‘ I take it this did n't exactly catch on ? ’ |
| 45 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 46 | But this did n't happen because I was brilliant . |
| 47 | But this did n't sound good . |
| 48 | This did n't stop her , however , from loosing a stream of automatic fire across the water to the other side of the docks , where men were smashed backwards by the force of the impacts . |
| 49 | No , this did n't look like our kind of thing at all . |
| 50 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 51 | Naturally , this did n't affect her competence to teach at the University of Oxford , because until quite recently the place preferred to treat modern languages as if they were dead : this made them more respectable , more like the distant perfections of Latin and Greek . |
| 52 | ‘ This did n't get shown either , ’ commented Franks . |
| 53 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 54 | If this did n't work nothing would . |
| 55 | If this did n't come all the way from the top , I 'd have you walk under a squad car on the way out of the building . |
| 56 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 57 | But this did n't excite too much attention as by this time Halling folk were used to walking , and only used the railway over longer distances . |
| 58 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 59 | This did n't help at all . |
| 60 | Even this did n't animate her much . |