Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 2 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 3 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 4 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 5 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 6 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 7 | Stupidly — but I did have a lot of luggage — cheeses , books for John and my hill boots — I did not take it out with me this trip . |
| 8 | Although the Highways Act of 1835 steadily drove pedestrianism off the roads , it did not drive it out of existence . |
| 9 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 10 | I assume he did not pick it up on Southfields Station ! ’ |
| 11 | They did not push me out of their watering hole because I was unsuitably dressed , but because females are only admissible if they are willing to pose as deferential ‘ little women ’ . |
| 12 | The idea took Christian by surprise , but he did not dismiss it out of hand . |
| 13 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
| 14 | Both of them were wary , but at least Hayley did n't throw herself out of the window . |
| 15 | All in all , my girl , you 're lucky Dr Penry Meredith Vaughan did n't throw you back in the sea . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't drop him off till about twenty past , twenty five past ten . |
| 17 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 18 | ‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt . |
| 19 | Like get back the dustbins which took them out but she did n't bring them back at the end of the drive erm and I hope that Paul tells him off ! |
| 20 | Surely your mother did n't bring you up with such poor values . |
| 21 | ‘ Listen , my boy , I did n't bring you up by hand to annoy people to death ! |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I did n't drag you out of bed to talk about Adam Burns , or about any other man , come to that . ’ |
| 23 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 24 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 25 | Ellwood did n't want her back in Hilary Todd 's office and close to people who posed a threat to him . |
| 26 | Did n't want anyone up at the . |
| 27 | Which member of the SDP 's ‘ Gang of Four ’ did n't make it back to the House of Commons at any time in 1983 ? |
| 28 | But on the trial flight ( June 24 , 1979 ) , the aeroplane ran out of fuel and Mike did n't make it back to the runway . |
| 29 | Sometimes one of them did n't make it back to base , or camp , or whatever they called it , and then one of his chums would pop along to tell the girlfriend . |
| 30 | The reason being that way back in 1990 the Leinster Division won the cup and its return to England was somewhat delayed , in fact , it did n't make it back in time for the 1991 competition when Western were the victors . |