Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 2 | But the Friar 's wits had not yet returned to him and he seemed not to hear what the Trapper said . |
| 3 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 4 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 5 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 6 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 7 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 8 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 9 | Christopher Pitchford , QC , prosecuting , told the jury : ‘ Whatever their feelings were on the home of an elderly woman being broken into by a gang of drug-crazed teenagers , it did not give anyone the excuse to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 10 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 11 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 12 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 13 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 14 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 15 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 16 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 17 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 18 | It did not specify what the components of the model were made of , but only their formal relationships . |
| 19 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 20 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 21 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 22 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 23 | In looking back at my records I notice that I did not send you the enclosed form which I have now completed . |
| 24 | Provided it was in the form of a thin whisker , it did not matter what the chemical nature of the stuff was or by what method the whiskers were grown . |
| 25 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 26 | It did not matter what the man looked like , but he should be listened to . |
| 27 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 28 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 29 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 30 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |