Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always knew we could score from a set piece , but what I did not expect was to concede two from set-pieces , ’ reflected manager Nigel Best . |
| 2 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 3 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 4 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 5 | What it did not do was encourage people to discriminate between rival politicians and parties . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher , in effect , did not anticipate being linked to the monetary system of an increasingly interventionist Europe in her political lifetime . |
| 7 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |
| 8 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 9 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
| 10 | She did not deserve being pilloried like that at all . |
| 11 | ‘ She was very proud of her success , not guilty , and did not like being made to feel so , ’ one friend explained . |
| 12 | She did not like being touched , not ever ! |
| 13 | Lewis did not like being corrected but he had to take it , and with a smile . |
| 14 | Maisie , like Henry , did not like being lifted . |
| 15 | He had very few spare clothes and did not like being found out . |
| 16 | Owen did not like being reminded that he was , so far as police work was concerned , an amateur . |
| 17 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 18 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 19 | Situations in which translation did not occur are accounted for . |
| 20 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 21 | Universities forced to reduce staff numbers by half after the science council concluded that they were grossly oversubscribed did not appreciate being asked to take in outsiders at a further cost to their own numbers . |
| 22 | She did not appreciate being manhandled . |
| 23 | The economy did not appreciate being forced up-market ; it went into a brief recession . |
| 24 | The Kwanggu prints moved me to tears , and to wish that all the people who did n't vote were made to view these simple but powerful images . |
| 25 | The one thing that she did n't do was to give him up . |
| 26 | Well one thing he did n't do was put a woman in the cabinet , and , as I have said , that 's something we 've got an eye on , obviously . |
| 27 | What he did n't do was relax and enjoy himself . |
| 28 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 29 | What we did n't relish was queuing up again in the gloom of the stairwell to get it . |
| 30 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |