Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another occasion , things did not go so well , ‘ for at each corner of each box they [ rats ] had made a proper hole for access and in each box was a warm nest of straw and the leaves and stalks of the shrubs . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was very pleased at the way I ran because despite the fact that my training did not go so well I was only five minutes behind my best ever time . |
| 3 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 4 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 5 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 6 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 7 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 8 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 9 | Alas the ancients did not do so well at Tilberthwaite as we have seen . |
| 10 | But he did not do so immediately . |
| 11 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Don , unfortunately , did not fare so well . |
| 14 | The British did not fare so well . |
| 15 | The Library 's teams — winners of last year 's competition — did not fare so well this time , coming in 9th and 10th out of 14 teams , but the fishermen are hopeful of winning back the trophy for the Library next year . |
| 16 | But Britain 's other women did not fare so well . |
| 17 | But as I thought then and it has proved since , it made a good story — The pump and towing car did not fare so lightly ; they caught the blast , we missed it . |
| 18 | Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily . |
| 19 | Jesus Christ himself did not last so long , I think . ’ |
| 20 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At the time there were only three cable companies operating in Britain : Cable & Wireless , which was owned by the British government so presented no problem , and the two American cable companies , the Commercial Cable Postal Telegraph Company and Western Union , who did not acquiesce so easily . |
| 23 | I did not visit so often . |
| 24 | Unlike the more staid and less affluent families of Racervine Park , residents of Scarcement Chase did not adhere so strictly to Ixmaritian law . |
| 25 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 26 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 27 | Berlin did not fall so easily . ’ |
| 28 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 29 | Old people did not die so often . |
| 30 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |