Example sentences of "[vb past] not do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 2 | What it did not do was encourage people to discriminate between rival politicians and parties . |
| 3 | His sins of micro-commission were small ; and the macro thing he did not do was hardly a new failure . |
| 4 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 5 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |