Example sentences of "who did not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 2 | If there was a Libyan involved , the police proceedings were accompanied by self-help action , although the influx of foreigners had created a number of potential offenders and victims who did not fit into the system . |
| 3 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 4 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 5 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 6 | And , in fact , the characteristic ‘ bourgeois ’ or member of the middle class in our period included few people who did not fit into one or other of these pigeon-holes . |
| 7 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 8 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 9 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 10 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 11 | He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did . |
| 12 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 13 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |
| 14 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 15 | We asked the women the average number of cigarettes they smoked a day and asked those who did not smoke whether they had ever smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 16 | Of the 63 women who did not smoke , 23 women had smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day at some time . |
| 17 | Patients who refused to participate , who did not answer the letters or telephone calls , or who were adopted or unable to give information about bowel disease in their relatives were not included in the segregation analysis , nor were children younger than 8 years of age . |
| 18 | When power was increased he was concerned for the skipper on board the yacht , who did not answer his radio , and indeed the safety of the yacht itself . |
| 19 | So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing . |
| 20 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 22 | They visited the homes of the women , talked to husbands , fathers and fathers-in-law who did not want them to take part in any struggle , and they urged the women themselves to assert themselves . |
| 23 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 24 | His clients were private people who did not want publicity . |
| 25 | Children who did not want to grow up haunted Kensington gardens because they had been happy there . |
| 26 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 27 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 28 | In an age when personal monarchy was the motivating force of government , and kings were straining every nerve to increase their power and authority , she provides the unique spectacle of an adult reigning monarch who did not want to reign . |
| 29 | ( I recently watched a more formal version of this technique where a class of adolescents was invited to direct the teacher in how to appear as a King of a small Greek State in classical times who had lost his power to a conquering neighbouring state but who did not want to lose his dignity . |
| 30 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |