Example sentences of "did not [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a beautiful book , too ; I did not want to put it down . |
| 2 | I did not want to lock myself in with Heathcliff . |
| 3 | But there was only two of us and the firm did not want to keep you on , realizing that you could be coming up for fifteen , they they finished you . |
| 4 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 5 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 6 | In an interview with The Scotsman in July last year , only weeks after he was diagnosed as having an inoperable bronchial tumour , Mr McTear , who smoked between 40 and 60 cigarettes a day for 30 years , said he did not expect to get anything out of the legal action . |
| 7 | She did not bother to pull them back . |
| 8 | We did not like to keep you up ’ . |
| 9 | In the first half alone McLean 's men created enough chances to win a handful of games , yet such was their lack of confidence in and around the box that Chris Reid , the young Hibs goalkeeper , did not have to do anything out of the ordinary to keep his side in the game . |
| 10 | They did not need to turn it over to recognise the Leader of the verderers . |
| 11 | It was an ordinary conversation , not an interrogatory ; for the first time since Flavia had known the Fourniers , they did not try to draw her out . |
| 12 | The coat was far too large for her and trailed the ground as she stalked off ; she did n't bother to hitch it up . |
| 13 | or they just did n't bother to fish him out . |
| 14 | The invitation to appear on it came at very short notice , and even though she 's no longer modelling except at charity functions , she feels a need to keep in the public eye , so she did n't want to turn it down , but she insisted that Florian and I should keep to our plans . ’ |
| 15 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |
| 16 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 17 | He knew Manolo would be taping this meeting , and he did n't want to say it out loud in words . |
| 18 | She had the edge on me from the point of view of rank , but I felt secure in the knowledge that ‘ J ’ ( my Corporal ) did n't want to take her out anyway . |
| 19 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 20 | Frank was keen to carry on with his commitments in Blackpool … particularly with the Labour Party conference , he did n't want to let them down . |
| 21 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 22 | I just kept working harder and harder as I did n't want to let anyone down and I did n't believe I would pick up a drink again . |
| 23 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't want to push you out of my life , ’ Jenna whispered . |
| 25 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 26 | I knew I did n't want to give them up . |
| 27 | She still did n't like him , she still did n't want to have him around , and now , from what her father had said , she had n't got much option . |
| 28 | David might simply have been overwhelmed by his financial responsibilities towards his mother , and could see no immediate future for a life with you and did n't want to tie you down . |
| 29 | They did n't want to spell it out too much for Eve , but it was a big event , the child they had brought up being invited out to a party . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't want to get her back , disturbing her when there was nothing she could do . ’ |