Example sentences of "[adv] did not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days .
2 Some inhabitants of Attica perhaps did not bother much with either deme or polis politics : the country house below the cave of Pan at Vari ( the ancient deme of Anagyruus ) , whose remains were cleared and studied by the British School at Athens and published in 1973 , gives an impression of self-sufficiency — there is copious archaeological evidence for bee-keeping at the Vari villa — and peace , a long way from the speechmakers of the Pnyx .
3 Santerre apparently did not go round his estates yesterday as he claimed .
4 However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds .
5 However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds .
6 The smoke will not fall exclusively on your garden merely because you alone did not pay up .
7 Franco not only did not do so but , on the following day , requested Sperrle to send any spare aircraft he might have to the Madrid front .
8 Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could .
9 This coalification pattern is a consequence of the pre-orogenic coalification , a coalification which obviously did not proceed later on during the subsidence of the Ruhr Basin and the Münsterland in Cretaceous times , — at least not at the surface of the Carboniferous .
10 Cantona & Chapman together did not work out and we lost Wallace 's abilty to go wide on both sides .
11 Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers .
12 Leeds C & A cheaper separates just did not stretch far enough .
13 Passengers just did not realize how fast trains travelled and contemporary reports list serious injuries and fatalities sustained when people leapt off trains to retrieve hats or umbrellas .
14 It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine .
15 Harnessing the evolutionists ' methods while jettisoning their ideologies was scarcely a difficult exercise since the libertarian theory patently did not hold together .
16 It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway .
17 Yet still Lesley still did not give up , keeping after her attacker and sending a radio SOS to police control with her call sign , Delta Romeo Three Two .
18 She helped him to his sofa bed in the living room , and he still did not wake up .
19 Meeks has suggested that in that year the United States still did not possess truly great stations to match the European models .
20 Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions .
21 But she still did not realize how unnecessary it was to attend such events , and she continued to go to all the scheduled treats .
22 The pensioners complained on the eve of the first anniversary of the publisher 's death that they still did not know how long their pensions would be paid .
23 However , these positive steps still did not add up to a radical new direction for farming on the scale that is needed .
24 Alice purposely did not look out of the window .
25 The annual replacement of the fuel rods a month later did not go too well either .
26 To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers .
27 Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window .
28 True crocodilian did not appear until the mid-Triassic , although they probably did not differ much from their late Permian ancestors .
29 I think she honestly did not know how she played so well .
30 In 1964 the traffic similarly did not pose quite such a problem as in 1988 , the car parking round the district proving quite adequate , especially as the expected crowds did not turn up on the day .
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