Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He opened pale , hurt eyes when Carrington told him not to take more drink excepting tea , and swore it had not entered his head . |
7 | , 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 . |
8 | At sixteen he discovered girls and decided he did not have a vocation . |
9 | Sheila was angry and said Mark had not been out of her care during the past fortnight and insisted she had not shaken him . |
10 | The Home Office refused to reveal whether the man was seeking asylum and said it did not comment on individual cases . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Blanche smiled and said she did not mean that , but the reference to Colombian cocaine barons and the mafia . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | And wished she had not spoken . |
16 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Wightman told police he hit his girlfriend 's head against the bathroom door or wall , but said he had not intended to kill her . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
22 | 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 ’ . |
23 | McAllister , ’ and she almost tripped over the last bit , but hoped he had not noticed . |