Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 2 | If there were times when Mains was not available or chose not to speak then those were his business , and his silence could be respected . |
| 3 | How can the Minister say that those people are not living in reasonably-rated areas — or did not do so , long before the introduction of the unified business rate ? |
| 4 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 5 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 6 | It is just that , until recently , we never thought , or did not know how , to ask . |
| 7 | Or had not done so . |
| 8 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 9 | He clung to the sides of the basket with all his strength and tried not to look down . |
| 10 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 11 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 12 | Then again , Pontius Pilate , he rejected the Lord Jesus , although he was entreated and warned not to do so by his loved one . |
| 13 | Other big potential buyers , like the Daily Telegraph and Carlton Communications , a video-duplication firm , agreed , and decided not to bid either . |
| 14 | I forgot about the danger and decided not to go home . |
| 15 | An important principal 's been breached here that Parliament was specifically asked 18 months ago to ban hunting and chose not to do so . |
| 16 | Jackson Chatterton had not offered me his hand and appeared not to notice when I offered mine . |
| 17 | The Court was not asked to consider the effects of this violation and did not do so . |
| 18 | Suppose that this agreement had never been made , and the wife had made no promise to maintain herself and did not do so . |
| 19 | The all-rounder was immediately taken off by captain Jeff Teiman and did not bowl again in the match . |
| 20 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 21 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 22 | Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors . |
| 23 | in the Davis Straits whale fishery ; he had little success and did not go again . |
| 24 | There was a small flat above the laboratory , where I lived , and sometimes I stayed inside the building for a week and did not go out . |
| 25 | She was slightly agoraphobic and did not go far from home on her own . |
| 26 | But although she could no longer see anything , she could swear that the star stopped on the edge of the hole and did not go in ! |
| 27 | ‘ We heard similar unfounded rumours a short time ago , and did not comment then , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 28 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 29 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 30 | Six of them did a routine on top of a tank , and did not stop even when the snow began to fall . |