Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb past] not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper . |
| 2 | The Ixmaritians in Mandru 's household did not have to share rooms as they had in Por Tanssie . |
| 3 | Mr Frizzell 's business did not seem to suffer from the omission . |
| 4 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 5 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 6 | The Fouchet plan 's demise did not appear to cause de Gaulle undue distress , any more than did the Americans ' failure to respond to his memorandum . |
| 7 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |