Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | it just did n't just did n't suit Chris a bit . |
| 32 | Even in the more affluent homes , labour saving devices we take for granted today either did n't exist or were an expensive luxury . |
| 33 | Her will quite properly did not prevail ; and Mr Weatherill , in a House even more disorderly than its predecessors , is held to have served it well . |
| 34 | Emil quite rightly did n't trust me to clear dirty plates , which involved fancy juggling with knives and forks . |
| 35 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |
| 36 | The magic solution has lost its power — although if you want another performance just re-heat and re-cool the beaker … to be supersaturated means to have more dissolved than there ought to be … the cold supersaturated solution almost literally did not know what to do . |
| 37 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 38 | Maisie was also guilty of one of Al-Kaysi 's key errors , leaving the house excessively — a practice he quite clearly did not relish in women . |
| 39 | My friend was fed up with preparing meals for her teenaged children who then often did n't turn up to eat . |
| 40 | ‘ They were aimed at the American market , and quite simply did n't work . |
| 41 | In my case studies this picture almost invariably did not hold true . |
| 42 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 43 | She just reached down and into the tray for what she knew would be there , and this almost certainly did n't include Masklin . |
| 44 | This led to a large increase in the number of false positives , yet still did not ensure that the correct word was always the highest scoring . |
| 45 | Even the thought of lunch at Osborne House again tomorrow did n't seem too bad an idea , even if it did mean listening to Mama telling him how she heard nightingales in the garden at Pierremont House and how she walked all the way to Pegwell when she was twelve and ate shrimp paste at the Bellevue Tavern . |
| 46 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 47 | It was the result of being determined not to be manoeuvred into things she did n't want to do , and yet she most certainly did n't want to do this . |
| 48 | Jacklin himself might be able to quit for a well deserved rest but that is something which his side most certainly did n't want to do . |
| 49 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 50 | ‘ I most certainly did not knock it over myself ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
| 51 | Experience alone most certainly did not secure an officer advancement in the customs administration and political interest was essential , as a letter received by Lord Panmure in 1739 made clear . |
| 52 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 53 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 54 | In Weekes v Gallard ( 1869 ) 21 LT 655 , the fact that a property had been valued too low did not stop the court ordering specific performance of the contract of sale at that low valuation . |
| 55 | In fact , Shiona very nearly did n't make it in time . |
| 56 | But Mrs Miniver very nearly did n't get beyond two years old , when a fall into a nearby river almost proved fatal . |
| 57 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 58 | But the second year with HRC very nearly did n't happen . |
| 59 | It very nearly did n't happen . |
| 60 | ‘ That all hinges on Nigel Steen having a financial motive to kill his father , and , as you just observed , he very positively did n't have such a motive . ’ |