Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that did not particularly please her , so I added , ‘ But your fame ranks with Shelley 's . |
| 2 | The thought of a cold , uncomfortable night alone on the hillside did not particularly worry him . |
| 3 | He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him . |
| 4 | Another survivor , who had no fewer than three sisters already in the trade , did not automatically follow them either . |
| 5 | ‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did . |
| 6 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 7 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 8 | Perhaps because some generals ( particularly Cabanellas and Queipo de Llano ) were unhappy with this outcome , the Defence Committee did not immediately announce it publicly . |
| 9 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |
| 10 | She did not even expect it . |
| 11 | I understand you did not even pay her for her work . |
| 12 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 13 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 14 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 15 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |
| 16 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps you are , although I did not even imply it . ’ |
| 18 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 19 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 20 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 21 | The wonderful thing about a consumer culture is that the stores have everything you want — more miraculously they have things you did not even know you wanted : like a wall-sized television set . |
| 22 | Indeed , the injured man did not even know he had been bitten until the water turned red as he swam to shore . |
| 23 | ( So : Minter did not even know he had left Rhodes , far less all he had discovered since then — notably about Minter himself . ) |
| 24 | She also exercised much informal influence at court and procured favours for her husband William of Windsor , though when she was accused of corruption in 1376 the king declared that he did not even know she was married , let alone that Windsor was her husband . |
| 25 | Perhaps I did not even know it . |
| 26 | Theresa did not even see it . |
| 27 | When she had finished , she did not even read it through , but thrust it into an envelope , rang furiously for Lyddy and demanded that the letter be taken at once to Trelorne . |
| 28 | You did not just give me my money for passing ! |
| 29 | There was no way to teach a man to read the Bible — a predominant intention in much early education in literacy — which did not also enable him to read the radical press . |
| 30 | The haematopathological status of this group did not reliably differentiate them from the ‘ reformed drinkers ’ . |