Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] did not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or thought she did not mean herself . |
| 2 | Deborah also doubted Sebastian , although she never let it show , or hoped she did not let it show . |
| 3 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 4 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 5 | All those months swelling up , the pain and weight , and pretending it did not exist . |
| 6 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 7 | He agreed and ordered Lady Kennedy 's counsel , Stephen Kamilish , to talk to her and ensure it did not continue . |
| 8 | Around him the usual Massgoers , Benedicta included , watched fascinated as Athelstan urged the soul to go out to meet his Christ , whilst he , Athelstan , priest of that church , summoned God 's army to meet this unfortunate man 's soul ; they were to lead it into Paradise and ensure it did not fall into the hands of Satan . |
| 9 | Maggie spat , alarmed that the others might hear and wishing she did not have to speak to him at all . |
| 10 | , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre . |
| 11 | At sixteen he discovered girls and decided he did not have a vocation . |
| 12 | The Home Office refused to reveal whether the man was seeking asylum and said it did not comment on individual cases . |
| 13 | Blanche smiled and said she did not mean that , but the reference to Colombian cocaine barons and the mafia . |
| 14 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 15 | She could ask Felipe , but he would probably only shrug and pretend he did not know . |
| 16 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 17 | But Gabriel was in no position to speak up and say they did not want to go . ) |
| 18 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
| 19 | Brenda Duffy , of Keir Hardie Crescent , South Bank , Middlesbrough , said she knew the witnesses but claimed she did not know the trial was going ahead . |
| 20 | For instance , the predicates clear and ’ ’ were used in the conditions for the operations in the blocks world , but adding them did not extend the descriptive power of the language . |
| 21 | The 17-year-old boy who fired the gun admitted causing Nicola grievous bodily harm at Wakefield juvenile court but said he did not think the gun was loaded . |
| 22 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 23 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 24 | This is flatly denied in the influential though anonymous ‘ Cornell paper ’ issued from the university in January 1966 which accepts that Sukarno and the PKI became involved but claims they did not initiate the plot . |