Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 2 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 3 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 4 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 5 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 6 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 7 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 8 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 9 | He did not excuse or condone his client 's conduct , but argued that the children had not been coerced . |
| 10 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ Home directly please , ’ to Murphy and this time he did not sigh or look pained at all , but simply said , ‘ Very good , Miss Alexandra , ’ and obeyed . |
| 12 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 13 | In Wishart 's opinion Minton , despite the gaiety he stimulated , was never happy : he did not complain or evince self-pity but he conveyed a bitter acceptance that , owing to some gross farce on the part of creation , happiness had eluded him . |
| 14 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |
| 15 | For those who did not marry or emigrate , the war might bring change of a different kind . |
| 16 | Though they were alone they did not embrace or kiss . |
| 17 | Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with . |
| 18 | Uta Maier-Maercker and Wolfgang Koch , of the Centre for Botanical Research in Munich , studied spruce trees and found that when exposed to ozone their stomata , the pores on the leaves through which water evaporates , did not open or close as efficiently as those of unexposed trees . |
| 19 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 20 | In contrast , despite its front-page headline — Sixty slaves in the kinky fiend 's harem — Daily Mirror did not identify or feature the comments of any of his previous victims . |
| 21 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 22 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 23 | The two defendents did not stand or fall together . |
| 24 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 25 | Dick heard her coming , but did not move or speak . |
| 26 | And when she did not move or draw back , he gave a heavy sigh . |
| 27 | Felix did not move and true to his word the batsman knocked him down . |
| 28 | Moral authority Cameron did not disregard or despise , but he was more concerned with its educative than with its binding power . |
| 29 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 30 | He paused at the bedroom door but the vague shape amid the bedclothes did not speak or stir . |