Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He either failed or did n't take his finals ; I could n't make out which . ’ |
| 2 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 3 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 4 | Mick disapproved of Memet as strongly as did the rest of her family , but Memet either did n't know or did n't care . |
| 5 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 6 | I I was hoping for something different this year and for a budget that erm er proposed that did n't depend on er us taking far more from reserves than any other party . |
| 7 | It was caused by an AA shell that did n't explode . |
| 8 | Do n't ask me how , I did n't know and did n't want to . |
| 9 | She laughed delightedly , whether at her own linguistic skill or happy memories of Rune 's electrifying performances beneath the duvet , Gina did n't know and did n't want to find out ! |
| 10 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
| 11 | The revolutionary mid-engined ( and transversely-mounted ) Miura was yet to come and did n't make its debut until the Turin show of 1966 . |
| 12 | I really did n't think I would win and did n't have a speech prepared . |
| 13 | With hindsight , Beatrice 's remark that she was not at all impressed and did n't know who he was seems significant . |
| 14 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 15 | The betting shops got caught and did n't like it . |
| 16 | Young Bessie had been educated and did not wish to follow her mother 's trade , selling pickle-cocks , dabs and oysters around Devonport . |
| 17 | He was a strange , rather lonely man with a lonely job that was highly pressured and did n't leave him any time to make friends or indulge in theatre gossip . |
| 18 | It was all she wanted to know and did not dare ask directly . |
| 19 | But Joe did n't let the remark hang , as if it was something that he 'd felt compelled to let her know but did n't want to discuss any further ; he said , ‘ Are we going to stay here , or move somewhere warmer ? |
| 20 | Nicholas Roeg was approached but did n't like it . |
| 21 | Tongues of the holy spirit of the woods , that trembled but did not go out . |
| 22 | Here Alice and Philip exchanged , with their eyes , feelings about Jim ; exactly as people looked but did not speak , apprehensions over Faye — as if something there was too dangerous for words , or at least volatile , to be set off like a risky electronics device by an injudicious combination of sounds . |
| 23 | They were the UN Development Programme and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific — both of which were billed to appear but did not show up . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you think that did n't hurt me ? ’ |
| 25 | This division , which quite unintentionally put the uncharted territory of Brazil into the Portuguese section , encouraged the Spanish and Portuguese to believe that they had a right , backed by a religious authority recognized by every country in western Europe , to all land that did not have a settled and effective government , and that they were entitled to monopolize the trade of these new territories . |
| 26 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 27 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 28 | But he added that did n't mean it might not affect others and that 's what worried him . |
| 29 | Johansson 's team tested a third energy mix that did not achieve the target . |
| 30 | There 's my red pe , I says that did n't say it on the list but I just wrote it on and need milk one red pepper ! |