Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 32 | I had to leave the Chamber to attend a Select Committee and did not return here until halfway through the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) . |
| 33 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 34 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 35 | It did not last long because of its complexity in application . |
| 36 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 37 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
| 38 | Some of the textured pavement and warning tiles did not function well and some caused difficulties for the non-handicapped , as when snagging high heels . |
| 39 | In Mr Warren 's case , the intoximeter at the police station did not function correctly and so samples were required . |
| 40 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 41 | Moran did not move even after the car stopped . |
| 42 | For almost four years , the rival armies faced each other in these primitive conditions , during which time the line did not move more than 16km/10mls either way . |
| 43 | The unfree did not exist legally and could not plead in a court . |
| 44 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
| 45 | He did not speak again until they were bumping up the track towards the cottage . |
| 46 | Humber did not speak again until Lewis left us . |
| 47 | They did not speak again until he was dressed and ready to leave . |
| 48 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |
| 49 | These large spaces did not rush past but seemed endless because endlessly repeated . |
| 50 | A large stone can provide a technical problem particular if hard ; in patient XIII the lithotrite cored a hole in a 28 mm stone , which did not break up and required subsequent cholecystoscopy and contact lithotripsy followed by a second rotary lithotripsy procedure . |
| 51 | However , most survivors did not improve mentally or physically and large numbers remained with long-term disability . |
| 52 | The commissioner confirmed the assessments , but the Board of Review allowed the taxpayer 's appeal , holding that those profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong . |
| 53 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 54 | The question of law for the opinion of the High Court stated by the Board of Review was whether , on the facts agreed and proved , the relevant profits for the years of assessment in question did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 55 | Godfrey J. answered the question by concluding that the Board of Review were incorrect in law in holding that the relevant profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong . |
| 56 | This Board rejected both these submissions and held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong . |
| 57 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 58 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 59 | It did not matter now that he was stiff , itching , cold , and dry-mouthed with hunger . |
| 60 | That did not matter much when rich foreigners used Switzerland simply as a safe home for their money . |