Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 2 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 3 | Dersingham did not bother to look at the man . |
| 4 | It did not seem to matter at the time . |
| 5 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 6 | They passed the hill , but she did not turn to look at the graveyard . |
| 7 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 8 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 9 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 10 | I did n't choose to work at the complex . |
| 11 | It was rather a small one and it did n't appear to matter at the time . ’ |
| 12 | We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his . |
| 13 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 14 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |