Example sentences of "[pron] did not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 2 | I wanted to gather teachers ' views and opinions , I did not in any way want to influence their responses . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 4 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 5 | It was like the sudden revelation of a pattern where none had been suspected , and I did n't at all care for it . |
| 6 | I did n't at any time actually offer it to her . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is by this inclusion also of other similar weapons that states have accepted that tear-gas is banned ; the only exception to this has been the USA , which did not in any case ratify the Protocol until 1975 . |
| 10 | If audio-visual items could be included in the very simple card catalogue systems previously devised for school libraries , they felt that the retrieval argument was over : a very comfortable conclusion for those who did not In any case understand indexing principles very thoroughly , were not very interested in the activity and valued most of all their own face-to-face contact with the clientele , making up in personal ( and psychologically boosting ) service for the shortcomings of their own indexes . |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't at all , ’ Matilda said . |
| 12 | Yeah but , yeah it 's funny cos , cos it 's funny cos I got that new Lego you did n't at all . |
| 13 | You did n't at that stage I do n't think make any sort of link towards referrals and introductions . |
| 14 | Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise . |
| 15 | Wrapped in her own thoughts , she did not at first hear what her husband was saying and only became aware of his monologue when Hank said : ‘ Say , Dad , that 'll be good . ’ |
| 16 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 17 | She did n't in any way splash it across the newspapers because that ruined her sister 's chances . |
| 18 | We did n't of this one . |
| 19 | Between a failed , boarded-up jeweller 's and a grocer 's displaying a windowful of sunshine cornflakes was a dark cavern of a shop , so dimly lit one did not at first notice it as it bowed its head under the tenement above . |
| 20 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 21 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 22 | Both were so absorbed in their activities that when the float went down , they did not at first respond . |
| 23 | Rab looked at her glass , wine red as blood , for they did not in this place sell gin and tonic . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 26 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 27 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 28 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 29 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 30 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |