Example sentences of "[pron] did n't [vb infin] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 2 | Oh I did n't leave till ten past , did I ? |
| 3 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 5 | I did n't write for five or six years afterwards but I do n't know if that was a direct result of what happened over ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 6 | Barry made an agitated sighing noise which I did n't take to one bit . |
| 7 | I did n't take in one word of French . |
| 8 | I did n't know until eleven o'clock that night he rang up and said I 'm not coming home . |
| 9 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 10 | If you did n't finish until ten minutes before , there was no way you could change and have a bath . |
| 11 | It was a terrible job , standing there for eight and a half hours — because you did n't finish after eight hours . |
| 12 | Because quite a l a number of members of the council had businesses and you did n't shut at six o'clock , it was seven or eight 'clock before they closed . |
| 13 | Never in the history of their friendship had Candy given up so easily — and she did n't believe for one split second she had now . |
| 14 | If she did n't come by twelve they would have to leave anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ She did n't look like one of the village matriarchs — she was quite small — ; but she might have been quarried out of the local slate . |
| 16 | She did n't doubt for one minute that the feeling was mutual . |
| 17 | We started with a clean sheet of paper , we did n't start with one of our earlier proprietary products and try and convert that to Unix , try to move that into the open systems world . |
| 18 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 19 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 20 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 21 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 22 | but they did n't come until three o'clock . |
| 23 | He did n't speak for ten minutes when his wife said she was expecting . |
| 24 | If he did n't answer after three rings , she would put it down . |
| 25 | If we must only think " if " he met some accident while trying to investigate something he did n't like on one of the ships , he will have died while doing what he felt to be his duty , " I said . |
| 26 | Now , to contradict myself , he did n't look like one of the Mafia at all . |
| 27 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 28 | It did n't start till ten past ten . |
| 29 | It did n't finish till five to twelve did it last Sunday ? |
| 30 | and it did n't happen in thirty nine because remember how monstrous it was |