Example sentences of "[det] do [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 3 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 4 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 5 | No , this did n't look like our kind of thing at all . |
| 6 | This did n't help at all . |
| 7 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 8 | This did n't sound like marketing hype ; there was genuine excitement in his voice . |
| 9 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 10 | This did n't happen in the ‘ good old days ’ . |
| 11 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 12 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 13 | Unfortunately , this did n't seem to be the right thing to say either . |
| 14 | And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ . |
| 15 | This did not fit with the idea of ‘ collaborative activities ’ which we had set out with because we had formulated our questions in terms of the teacher 's decision making . |
| 16 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 17 | He had dogged determination and was of undeviating rectitude , although this did not relate to any well-defined religious beliefs . |
| 18 | Fortunately this did not lead to complacency . |
| 19 | During the war military training took several hours of the school curriculum and this did not end with the armistice . |
| 20 | This did not depend on majority let alone mass literacy . |
| 21 | This did not meet with approval , and by 1163 Frederick had returned to Italy with a small band of men , aiming to capture Rome and proceed to Sicily . |
| 22 | On the basis of this strategy , the analysts produced a user requirement for the index system ; however , this did not compare with the idealised IPS that was originally anticipated as a result of the two extensive studies . |
| 23 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 24 | It was fortunate that this did not extend to people . |
| 25 | The rather crude experiment that Marie Gibbs made by putting the methylanthranilate in the chicks ' bills when their eyes were closed arid showing that this did not result in a change in receptors is one such test , but , because being blindfolded is itself scarcely a neutral experience for the birds , it ca n't be more than suggestive . |
| 26 | If he was exploited by landowners and the merchant and artisan classes , this did not result in total dependence on them . |
| 27 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 28 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 29 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 30 | For computer staff this did not appear to be so . |