Example sentences of "did n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Remember Sherlock Holmes 's clue of the dog that did n't bark in the night ? ) |
| 2 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 3 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 4 | ‘ The dog was curious because it did n't bark in the night , when it should have done . |
| 5 | A very delicate , spotlit recollection of childhood , with almost music box accompaniment , it did n't blend too well with gangway doors opening , light flooding into the darkened auditorium . |
| 6 | It was caused by an AA shell that did n't explode . |
| 7 | Fortunately though this bomb did n't explode else i i we should of known about it . |
| 8 | The pod did n't explode . |
| 9 | but they did n't explode , so the RAF lads said they were made of macaroni . |
| 10 | I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me . |
| 11 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't marry Alison , ’ he answered , ‘ because Alison is n't you . ’ |
| 13 | Well , maybe that 's how Dean Martin remembers it all , but Sinatra 's marriage to Ava Gardner had finished in 1952 and he did n't marry Mia Farrow until 1966 . |
| 14 | She did n't marry until she was 63 and had retired from teaching . |
| 15 | " Ah , but he did n't marry her , did he ? " |
| 16 | " Provided you did n't marry 'er ma as well , that is . " |
| 17 | Mr Robinson died in 1846 , but Mrs Robinson did n't marry Branwell — oh no ! |
| 18 | My dad did n't marry again . ’ |
| 19 | Lots of ladies come in to see us and say : ‘ It 's a shame you did n't marry . ’ |
| 20 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 21 | Yes , but what was her independence if she did n't marry him ? |
| 22 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 23 | And she did n't present it modestly ( she said , after all , that she hated modesty ) , but belligerently . |
| 24 | Running such a large family did n't present any problems for her . |
| 25 | Shadowy bergschrunds and dark crevasses loomed large , but did n't present any real problems . |
| 26 | Water Gypsy 's narrow let-down tables did n't present much of a barrier to those seated at them , and her proximity to Fen was torture to her senses . |
| 27 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were erm wanting to disrupt the teaching of their erm of their teachers , and really problems were reduced to individuals in teach class , one or two pupils , which erm did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups had done previously . |
| 28 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't arrange it , but I did n't dodge it , ’ Maxim said doggedly . |
| 30 | Erm to the work and I kept er going you know like I I did n't dodge I did n't miss school . |