Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ?
2 The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up .
3 That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least .
4 He listened , but he did not involve himself in the affairs of his friends , except on the level of gossip .
5 Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest .
6 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
7 They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures .
8 He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing .
9 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
10 Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution .
11 None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper .
12 The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ;
13 ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’
14 In a national park , 33 such species were found : one endemic ( Acacia koa , Leguminosae ) though six other indigenous species were pantropical coastal plants , but three others with such nectaries elsewhere in their range did not have them in the Hawaiian populations .
15 That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court .
16 He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies .
17 The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place .
18 But they did not find it in the hypothalamus .
19 The same happened at the Commonwealth Tournament later in the year — and to this day she wonders if this behaviour had something to do with the fact that the selectors did not include her in the 1984 match at Muirfield .
20 But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … .
21 I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response .
22 I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland .
23 A possible committal to prison on account of her long-standing beliefs did not frighten her in the least .
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