Example sentences of "people [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |
| 2 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 3 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 5 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ Many people did not appreciate how good Pallister was at Ayresome Park . |
| 7 | Many people did not fill in this section and others made positive comments which are duplicated elsewhere |
| 8 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
| 9 | Old people did not die so often . |
| 10 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 11 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 12 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 13 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |