Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew poor they had to be shut away in an old people 's home , because poverty did n't officially exist in the new state . |
| 2 | ‘ I … er … did n't exactly keep in touch , you know , Mrs Tuckett , ’ I said lamely . |
| 3 | They did n't just go in twenty three years ago as somebody suggested . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind telling me , sir , why you did n't just wait in the twenty-minute car-park ? |
| 5 | It is just as practical a uniform as that found on the flight-deck ( which did n't even exist in the eighteenth century — which profession lacks originality ? ) . |
| 6 | She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child . |
| 7 | I wanted to ask for help with the relics , and I wanted some moral support , but it felt wrong somehow , sort of like sneaking to an adult ; an adult I did n't even believe in . |
| 8 | And when I did n't even look in this morning , I just , I was n't |
| 9 | And another thing , I did n't even look in Mark 's room . |
| 10 | Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’ |
| 11 | He was examining the damage to the Peugeot , and did n't even glance in the direction of the departing car . |
| 12 | As I told you , I did n't particularly take in her plans for the weekend , you know how one does n't , one just asks to be civil and does n't listen properly to the answer . ’ |
| 13 | Shepherds and their kind did n't normally wait in the main hall of High Brook . |
| 14 | Around Christmas Fayre , when the Food Hall was crammed with food you did n't normally see in the other seasons , they made a nice end to a meal . |
| 15 | He did n't once look in her direction . |
| 16 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 17 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 18 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 19 | The only Excuse me , er no , we even had Abbot , A double B , er did n't always get in front but I think it should have done you know , you take the first letter and then you take the . |
| 20 | She meant he might at least have promised to have a go at shaking the devils out , even if he did n't quite believe in them ; he might at least have tried . |
| 21 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 22 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 23 | They did n't only stop in one place . |
| 24 | Burglaries did n't only happen in London . |
| 25 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 26 | I did n't actually feel in the mood to show her |
| 27 | So you did n't actually work in Harlow ? |
| 28 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 29 | Unless they did n't actually happen in September . |
| 30 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |