Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 2 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 3 | Tongues of the holy spirit of the woods , that trembled but did not go out . |
| 4 | For the last month of his contract , Hanley played but did not train . |
| 5 | Certainly it is true that No 506 failed and did not operate on the Saturday . |
| 6 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 7 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 8 | In response to the charge and his name and address he merely nodded and did not speak throughout the hearing . |
| 9 | For secret reasons she acknowledged but did not understand , she felt bitterly offended . |
| 10 | Sophia sighed but did not answer , for on such an occasion as this there was n't really time to go into whether Penelope particularly liked Rupert Stonebird or not or to embark on the sort of explanation that a man could n't be expected to understand . |
| 11 | Mr B ( who knows Mr A has hearing problems ) replied but did not use his voice at all . |
| 12 | PW agreed but did not inform the court of its previous connections with the case . |
| 13 | House prices up by one-third over two years could spell disaster for those leaving Britain who sold but did not reinvest in the housing market before returning home . |
| 14 | And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room . |
| 15 | All of these last examples are of course one sided and do not benefit the host , but the association between cleaner shrimps and plankton filter-feeding sea cucumbers is one step further removed and borders on parasitism . |
| 16 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 17 | In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace . |
| 18 | All Operational , Intelligence and Weapon Development policy was made the responsibility of the Central Staff , which encompassed but did not unify the Naval , General , and Air Staffs . |
| 19 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 20 | He saw and did not see the paintings . |
| 21 | She laughed and did not reply , staring out at the trees . |
| 22 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 23 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 24 | ( After the fall of the Greek Empire , the knowledge of many arts , including the art of horsemanship , gradually disappeared and did not re-emerge until the sixteenth century . ) |
| 25 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 26 | Roddy knew but did not care . |
| 27 | She thought but did not speak : That word is meaningless now . |
| 28 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 29 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 30 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |