Example sentences of "do not [verb] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not expect very much . |
| 2 | We did not care very much for politics . |
| 3 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 4 | Because it was theirs , he knew how to shut the door , although it did not fit very well , without any irritating noise . |
| 5 | When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time . |
| 6 | The Princess , I realized , did not think very highly of the King . |
| 7 | As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame . |
| 8 | She lost her home , was apart from her own family and my father , and did not fare very well at all when the time came to divide Aunt Bessie 's property . |
| 9 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 10 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 11 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 12 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 13 | Personally , I prefer the notion that this structure , whatever it was , did not open very far at this time and soon closed again . |
| 14 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |
| 15 | But The Henderson Kids role did not last very long and Dannii still remained the more famous in the Minogue celebrity stakes . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid that desirable state did not last very long . |
| 17 | This ‘ new ’ Parliament did not last very long . |
| 18 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 19 | Pound had been released from confinement in April 1958 , largely as a result of Eliot 's collaboration with Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish in petitioning the American government , but his exhilaration at his new freedom did not last very long . |
| 20 | But unfortunately he did not last very long , and his views were soon considered out of date by his successors . |
| 21 | Then came the arrest , and the trial , which did not last very long . |
| 22 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 23 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 24 | He did not feel very well and he felt that some air was called for . |
| 25 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 26 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 27 | For the most part , however , the labouring classes did not move very far . |
| 28 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 29 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 30 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |