Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adj] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
2 | At first , the Attorney General did not intend to permit this , but as members indicated on a vote that they preferred to debate the new text , the Attorney General allowed to propose it as follows : |
3 | Nevertheless , the Bölkow 207 did not bite , dropping its nose smartly but straight ahead and responding instantly to normal recovery techniques . |
4 | Clarke won plenty of line-out ball , but Andy Reed and Paul Burnell in the front five did not contribute as expected . |
5 | At the time this did not appear an entirely unrealistic perspective . |
6 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |