Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] or [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 2 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 3 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 4 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 5 | And did n't preach or sneer or wield a pen |
| 6 | Doughboy … a giant of man who did n't drink or smoke and just lived for his studies , and his rowing . |
| 7 | Only this time the car did n't stop or turn but drove on , slithering a little on the loose gravel , until it stopped by their front door . |
| 8 | I did n't have a Valium injection and I did n't have laughing gas ( who needs that when you 've got an entertaining toothbrush ? ) , and I did n't cry or faint or bite the hygienist or do any of the things normally associated with one of my trips to the dentist . |
| 9 | He did n't know or care whether Dickens liked this stuff , but he was damned certain he did n't . |
| 10 | I had so much invested in my identity as a young success that when it all evaporated I was left with a part of myself I did n't know or understand or like . |
| 11 | His lips did n't curve or pucker when he smiled . |
| 12 | They really did n't understand or realize that they were worth so much . |