Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pencil lines on the back of the Lucky Strike packet that were supposed to represent the commercial heart of Glasgow , somehow did n't match up with the darkened canyon they were driving along . |
| 2 | ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening . |
| 3 | I was really disappointed with it I suppose , it just did n't match up to my expectations . |
| 4 | But this was the real world , and young women like Shelley just did n't fit in with men like Miguelito . |
| 5 | It just did n't fit in with what he was saying . ’ |
| 6 | I generally did n't drop off till four or five . |
| 7 | cos he fucking did n't turn up on time ! |
| 8 | ‘ I — I just had n't got round to it , ’ she said weakly . |
| 9 | And I know it 's not , not saying there 's anything wrong with it , just had n't got round to writing it . |
| 10 | I just stood there looking up at it . |
| 11 | However , these positive steps still did not add up to a radical new direction for farming on the scale that is needed . |
| 12 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |
| 13 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 14 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 15 | But whatever lit it was not the moon , for this Stephen now saw slowly rising out of clusters of cloud on the rim of the moor , a reddish , mottled orb like the ghost of that sun . |
| 16 | Scotty was weary , the gigs were far apart , he 'd had a touch of the ‘ flu and , at over 60 , really did n't feel up to it . |
| 17 | If she really had n't felt up to coming out she would surely have said ? |
| 18 | Once she 'd had the baby , she immediately set about getting back to her ‘ normal ’ weight , even though that weight was so low that her body could not function normally . |
| 19 | Then came back to sign on at Westminster Evening Institute for a University extra-mural course in Sociology . |
| 20 | He gave her a hard-eyed stare , then swung away to look out of the window . |
| 21 | The judges then went on to get through to the hub of the whole matter : |
| 22 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 23 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 24 | The jeep undoubtedly did not live up to her new image . |
| 25 | Then the ‘ Empire ’ roller bearings evidently did not live up to expectations and were replaced by plain axle boxes . |
| 26 | But yesterday the company said the Raffles cigarettes sold in the shop were £2.02 , not £1.98 , and therefore did not add up to £17.47 , implying that the two men changed the display price to suit their story . |
| 27 | It therefore did n't add up for the government or the CEGB to argue that nuclear power provided such an enormously valuable insurance cover . |