Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brothers did n't have to do housework ! |
| 2 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 3 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 4 | My authority went out to tender to test prices long before the House thought about it . |
| 5 | ‘ That was different , ’ he told her grandly , and resumed , ‘ While ensuring that my secretary had enough work to keep him fully occupied for the whole of that weekend , and not really expecting you would have any need to contact him , I instructed Lubor Ondrus to give you any assistance you might require should a problem arise . ’ |
| 6 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 7 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 8 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 9 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 10 | Heavy wrought-iron black fireplaces were installed once more , to Ted 's irritation , as he 'd spent much of his working life tearing out fireplaces so women like my mother did n't have to get up early on freezing mornings to make up the fire on their knees . |
| 11 | I saw perfect truth in this , and even my mother did n't trouble to deny it . |
| 12 | I said nothing , but my mother did n't seem to notice . |
| 13 | She got up and poured herself a glass of whisky without asking , and my mother did n't seem to mind . |
| 14 | Rachel stared at Jennifer and her heart gave a great lurch as what her sister had just said began to sink in , then she frowned . |
| 15 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 16 | She still faced me , but her shoulders had already begun to turn away … |
| 17 | In the 1940s wives were still bitterly resentful of the fact that their husbands did not seem to realise that they needed leisure . |
| 18 | She thought it was Swimmer of Lakes for a moment , but her horse had already returned to open land and was quietly grazing to the east . |
| 19 | Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him ? |
| 20 | At least her skin was clear and her neck had n't started to sag . |
| 21 | Neither man gave evidence but their counsels argued neither had believed they were breaking the law . |
| 22 | Defries was silent , in thought , for a moment , but her eyes did n't cease scanning the rocks , and her hands were making automatic checks of her suit 's status controls and of the weapons hanging at her waist . |
| 23 | I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak . |
| 24 | She had walked away from finishing school and she had walked away from Miss Vacani 's ; and her parents had never sought to interfere with her freedom , or impose restrictions on her . |
| 25 | Her parents did not seem to mind that he had no qualifications and had not finished his university course . |
| 26 | Her parents did n't dare to challenge me . ’ |
| 27 | Mocking supporters of legalisation writing in ‘ sophisticated newspapers ’ , the minister said perhaps they believed that suppliers , unmolested by the police , would , ‘ as an act of Christian charity ’ reduce their prices so their customers did not have to steal and prostitute themselves . |
| 28 | But her heart , her poor , long-neglected heart , had answered yes , before her head had even begun to calculate all the reasons she absolutely could not and should not give herself over to this madness . |
| 29 | She obeyed , disappointed that her efforts had n't appeared to bring him closer to orgasm . |
| 30 | A while ago she had felt hungry ; now her appetite seemed suddenly to have faded . |