Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or thought she did not mean herself . |
| 2 | Or did you pretend not to read it because of my invitation to make a real life together ? |
| 3 | Deborah also doubted Sebastian , although she never let it show , or hoped she did not let it show . |
| 4 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 5 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 6 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 7 | Loretta forced a smile , and judged it better not to answer . |
| 8 | Alarmed by the scale of public outrage over the attack , the Provisional Irish Republican Army accused the police of being more interested in protecting property than saving lives and claimed they had not wanted to hurt anyone . |
| 9 | He opened pale , hurt eyes when Carrington told him not to take more drink excepting tea , and swore it had not entered his head . |
| 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 | Sheila was angry and said Mark had not been out of her care during the past fortnight and insisted she had not shaken him . |
| 13 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 14 | The publishers have apologised , and stressed it does not reflect their views . |
| 15 | The CPS has returned the file and said it does not intend to prosecute the officers , who have not been named by police chiefs . |
| 16 | The Home Office refused to reveal whether the man was seeking asylum and said it did not comment on individual cases . |
| 17 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 18 | Blanche smiled and said she did not mean that , but the reference to Colombian cocaine barons and the mafia . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 21 | And wished she had not spoken . |
| 22 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 25 | Wightman told police he hit his girlfriend 's head against the bathroom door or wall , but said he had not intended to kill her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | McAllister , ’ and she almost tripped over the last bit , but hoped he had not noticed . |