Example sentences of "[pron] did not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not cleave to their affectation that man 's essential role is to endure the sufferings of a senseless existence until death provides the bounty of eternal life . |
| 2 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 3 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 4 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 5 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 6 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 7 | At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them . |
| 8 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 9 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 10 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 11 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 12 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not think about Suzy at the time' |
| 14 | At first , I did not think about my father . |
| 15 | I am sorry to say I did not think about dear , good Joe at all . |
| 16 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 17 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 18 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 19 | I did not realise until now that he had more than one function . |
| 20 | That I did not care about my work was , I thought , an outrage . |
| 21 | I did not care for him . |
| 22 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 23 | For the first time in my life I tasted champagne and I did not care for it very much because I was a complete and absolute non-drinker at the time , I would like to warn anybody that this was something which did not last for very long : I have since acquired an insatiable thirst and desire for champagne . |
| 24 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 25 | I did not start on my own — a young neighbour was selling children 's garments she bought from a warehouse . |
| 26 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 27 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 28 | I did not want to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 29 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 30 | I was very unhappy after this because I did not want to be apart from my Momma . |