Example sentences of "of they [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils .
2 Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily .
3 He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago .
4 Some of them did not flower too well in confined conditions and others , like the Double Yellow , proved intolerant of London 's smoke .
5 Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers .
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