Example sentences of "[noun pl] did [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since her words did n't appear to be an invitation to food , he returned his intense concentration to the man . |
| 2 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 3 | She had a hand pressed against the wall for support , and her hard tone and blunt words did n't fool Belinda into thinking she did n't care . |
| 4 | Polly wondered instantly , and clamped her lips together so the words did n't spill out . |
| 5 | Juliet was studying the road map and her mother 's last words did n't register . |
| 6 | Words did n't seem able to describe the confusion of her feelings for fitzAlan . |
| 7 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 8 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 9 | A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby . |
| 10 | As for the Government 's style , Mr Heseltine suggested that much of its tough ‘ rhetoric ’ was empty , because the hostile words did not match the actions . |
| 11 | But the words did not match the actions . |
| 12 | Her soft words did not get a soft reply . |
| 13 | Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident . |
| 14 | Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other . |
| 15 | When it was first recognised that the atom could be likened to a small solar system in which the electron planets orbited a nuclear sun , theorists were Puzzled as to why the electrons in their tightly curved orbits did not radiate their energy away and spiral into the nucleus as predicted by classical , that is pre-quantum , theory . |
| 16 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 17 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 18 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 19 | His lips did not move by a fraction of an inch , but the expression in his eyes said he was amused and prepared to bide his time . |
| 20 | ‘ Tip glass , tip ! ’ she ordered , but her lips did n't move and she made no sound . |
| 21 | His lips did n't curve or pucker when he smiled . |
| 22 | While orthodox Marxist — Leninism of the Comintern period offered no serious accounts of liberal democratic practices and institutions , neo-Marxists have tried to come to terms with phenomena which classical Marxists did not anticipate , especially the advent of some form of mixed economy and the growth of an extended welfare state in every advanced capitalist society . |
| 23 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 24 | Piers did not have meat , but only cheese , loaves of beans and bran and various vegetables , and it was on these that he would have to live until Lammas and the new harvest . |
| 25 | Piers did n't answer . |
| 26 | Piers did n't look in the slightest bit put out by this statement . |
| 27 | Piers did n't say anything , but he did n't press the point with her . |
| 28 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , petition-drawers did not have a particularly good reputation among Sinhalese . |
| 30 | A total of 367 pupils in Wales took the GT4 test ( two schools did not return tests ) approximately one-third using the Welsh language versions . |