Example sentences of "[prep] and [pers pn] did [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
2 | In their view , we were the hacks he 'd run against and we did n't like being treated that way . ’ |
3 | Now I have always been very particular whom I sleep with and I did n't like sharing my room with a possible murderer . |
4 | I was crouched in the hay in the stable that the horses have gone from and she did n't know I was watching her . |
5 | And there was a neurosis and an anxiety involved around doing that solo record for me , because I 'd never done one before and I did n't know if I could actually pull it off . |
6 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
7 | No — I 've had it cut short before and I did n't like the way it feels when you wake up in the mornings — really weird . |
8 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |
9 | Because I did n't want the kids saying , ah , you have n't got to And I did n't want to go in on Saturday morning either did I ? |
10 | The sideboard knocked the wall as he swung round and the noise groaned in the room that had not known such life since the night Francis Sutherland , drunk in front of weekend guests , told his wife , self-assured and aloof on the distant coast of the table , that she was a frigid bitch who needed seeing to and he did n't care who did it . |
11 | He was lying close by and he did not move . |
12 | But erm , there are one or two interesting exceptions to this , and one exception is myself , because er , I started analyzing myself through maybe to nineteen sixty nine , and with one or two small exceptions , like when I was being analyzed by and I did n't like it , with any doubt , my entire analysis was being written down . |