Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 2 | Those who declared an average farm income of 20% or less obviously did not look on the off-farm job in this way . |
| 3 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 4 | Twenty years ago , the technology needed to bind the individual media together simply did not exist . |
| 5 | We 'll prosecute ’ , because that silly fool down there did n't take a statutory sample . |
| 6 | And Clara saw that Mrs Hanney 's ignominy was complete , for this programme , the name of which her mother so evidently did not forget , was considered by her mother to be the very lowest form of entertainment available , designed for the exceptionally stupid and depraved . |
| 7 | The man who was modernist and proud when most just did n't get it has n't gone away , he 's thrived — his first solo album is another gem . |
| 8 | Franco not only did not do so but , on the following day , requested Sperrle to send any spare aircraft he might have to the Madrid front . |
| 9 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 10 | In time , however , these ideas developed into a much more general critique , in which objects not only did not signify use value but were found not to signify anything outside of themselves . |
| 11 | The daughter of that cruel Damophilus " had done all she could to comfort the slaves who were beaten by her parents " : so the slaves not only did not touch her but escorted her " to the home of certain kinsmen in Catana " ( 34.39 ) . |
| 12 | But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one . |
| 13 | It will be seen , however , that although the Rules required that if the notice related to and was prejudicial to a person other than a member , a copy of the notice must be served upon him , such a person not only did not have any prior opportunity of making representations why the notice should not be issued , but was not given , under the Rules , the right to apply to set it aside , nor any right to appeal against the notice . |
| 14 | And I just generally did n't have a clue … . |
| 15 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 16 | I think you can read all you want and talk to people as often as you want but , in my case , my understanding of Europe just simply did n't exist before I went there . |
| 17 | It was moving all right , and just because it had started off slowly did n't mean there was n't something huge and unstoppable about it . |
| 18 | Or more likely did n't care , he thought . |
| 19 | From condoms to unwanted babies , from love to the danger of AIDS , this new generation of 13 to 16-year-olds shatter the old image of spotty schoolboys who boast about what they did — or more likely did n't do — behind the bike shed . |
| 20 | Probably just did n't want to lose a profitable business . |
| 21 | And you and me nearly nearly did n't get on the train . |
| 22 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 23 | on your your calculator , you probably really did n't know what on earth this means |
| 24 | Mind you the tents up there did n't look very new actually , I know one |
| 25 | The Captain fairly obviously did n't want it , but restricted himself to a wry grin . |
| 26 | Campese , definitely unlike Best , says he would n't know how to chat up a girl , though Best did n't have to do much chatting . |
| 27 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 28 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 29 | But then the little bedroom was n't so did n't seem so damp . |
| 30 | The talk was a little on the short side , but even so did not hold the attention as well as it might have . |