Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't of this one . |
| 2 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 3 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 4 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 6 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 7 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 8 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 9 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 10 | On the surface he was a very matter-of-fact man , and he did n't at all like rehearsing ; but he was a good musician . |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't at all , ’ Matilda said . |
| 12 | It was like the sudden revelation of a pattern where none had been suspected , and I did n't at all care for it . |
| 13 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 14 | ‘ I see , ’ he commented quietly , and , from what Leith could gather , he did n't at all like what he saw . |
| 15 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she shouted , and did n't at all like the smile that crossed his features . |
| 16 | Yeah but , yeah it 's funny cos , cos it 's funny cos I got that new Lego you did n't at all . |
| 17 | You did n't at that stage I do n't think make any sort of link towards referrals and introductions . |
| 18 | I did n't at any time actually offer it to her . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't when he was eighteen and he did n't in 1979 at Lytham . |
| 20 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 21 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 22 | She did n't in any way splash it across the newspapers because that ruined her sister 's chances . |
| 23 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 24 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 25 | It 's like , girls who had on that side , and girls who had n't on that side , — can I join , kind of thing . |
| 26 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 27 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 28 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 29 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 30 | If Harrods had n't in this ridiculous way offered you a credit card , no crime would have been committed . |