Example sentences of "did not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 2 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 3 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 4 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 5 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 6 | The Greeks did not go beyond that minimum of attention which their position demanded . |
| 7 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 8 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 9 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 10 | He did not go into further detail about the morality or legality of nuclear use or nuclear deterrence , partly no doubt because he favoured an effective world-wide prohibition on nuclear weapons production ( Spaight , 1947 , p. 218 ) and therefore hoped that such issues would not arise . |
| 11 | Otherwise dates did not appear on western coinage until the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago , when the planet was 45 . |
| 13 | What he did not realise at that stage was that it was meaningless to compare Baldwin 's speed with that of Bonar Law , for Baldwin did not work at all in Law 's sense . |
| 14 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 15 | The online catalogue was a spin-off which did not stem from any desire to serve the user better . |
| 16 | If the council did not react to that notice , then would be the time for the tenant to exercise the right to prosecute . |
| 17 | Binding was observed between antibody KG9 and rice and millet prolamins ; maize prolains displayed very weak bands and sorghum did not react in this system . |
| 18 | They drank their tea and did not talk to each other . |
| 19 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the Minister did not think at this time that it was necessary to end the corporate status of Tanzania 's radio service . |
| 21 | At this point Bukharin did not suggest in any detail how the new equilibrium was to be achieved ; but he was willing to move more cautiously and pragmatically . |
| 22 | If the electron did not leave behind enough energy to give the neutrino its mass , then that extra type of decay involving fat neutrinos would not happen . |
| 23 | Paul walked away , determination in his gait ; if she did not reply to this note , he would send others until she did . |
| 24 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 26 | However , while these ideas were based upon the projected outcome of the ECSC , they did not originate within that organisation nor from any kind of collaboration among its constituent members . |
| 27 | In fact the expected invasion of Aquitaine did not materialize until some time after Henry had sailed to England in June . |
| 28 | And so in memory of all those men who did not return to this base , we dedicate them to the keeping of Almighty God we read these verses together . |
| 29 | Opening the debate , Mr Smith did not return to this theme but dwelt on ‘ the pathways out of poverty ’ proposed in the review , notably the introduction of a statutory minimum wage and the restoration of a link between pensions and average earnings . |
| 30 | The cat did not return until late afternoon . |