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Example sentences for "did not"

  • Several times Thurid pointed across the river in my direction, but that his gestures had any reference to me I did not for a moment believe.

  • If these be Thuvia of Ptarth and Dejah Thoris of Helium I did not know it--I have seen neither.

  • But Al did not object to Simon's presentation.

  • If student evaluations improved the year that I did not teach in the course, it was in part because previous criticisms have been taken to heart and teaching improved in the course.

  • Feigning a bored expression that he did not feel, Henry asked if she had any evidence specific to the critiques in question.

  • The accident he did not recall, nor did he recall aught of what had led up to it.

  • The Belgian assured him, with tears in his eyes, that he did not wish to die.

  • There was a tantalizing suggestion always present in his mind that something was eluding him--that he should know many things which he did not know.

  • How long he had fled he did not know, or try to know.

  • Did not I direct thee the way to the little wicket-gate?

  • Look, said Christian, did not I tell you so?

  • Personally, I struck an interruption, now, but I did not mind it, it could not have happened at a better time.

  • We marched comfortably along, through glades and over brooks which I could not remember to have seen before--which puzzled me and made me wonder--and yet we did not come to any circus or sign of a circus.

  • So you see I was expecting this interruption; it did not take me by surprise.

  • But he, holding firmly on to the platform, did not budge an inch, and let the storm pass on, which would soon have assumed formidable proportions, if Michel Ardan had not quieted it by a gesture.

  • Nobody listened to him, and he did not succeed in alienating a single admirer from the president of the Gun Club.

  • It did not seem to her that the mere despatch of a shot to the moon could possibly establish any relation of affairs with her; and it did not seem prudent to her to embark her capital in so hazardous an enterprise.

  • Ardan looked at the captain, but he did not wince.

  • John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, did not ask to be transferred to the British man-of-war.

  • Again did Tarzan feast well, but this time he did not sleep.

  • That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary.

  • No, no; I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about; that would be a good joke, faith!

  • This was readily agreed to, with only a proviso of Miss Tilney's, that it did not rain, which Catherine was sure it would not.

  • Did not we agree together to take a drive this morning?

  • He did not refer to the matter again even indirectly.

  • He did not seem so pleased with his captain's invitation.

  • He whispered this fact to Tarzan, for he did not wish to alarm the girl.

  • I did not realize, I could not realize for a long time afterward, that any woman could sink to such moral depravity as that one must have to call a would-be rescuer to death.

  • Then his girls had begun to make fun of it; and though he did not mind Penelope's jokes much, he did not like to see that Irene's gentility was wounded.

  • Mrs. Corey refused the consequence, saying that it did not follow.

  • He did not go out to lunch, but had it brought to him in his office, where Corey saw him eating it before he left his own desk to go out and perch on a swinging seat before the long counter of a down-town restaurant.

  • Corey fell into another reverie, and smiled again; but he did not offer to explain what amused him, and his mother would not ask.

  • Mr. Lapham, although he did not dwell on his boyish trials and struggles, spoke of them with deep feeling and an abiding sense of their reality.

  • He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.

  • Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.

  • I thanked my friend from my heart, but I did not speak.

  • I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.

  • He did not fail to leave the marks of his resentment on my body, and then solaced himself by playing with my sister.

  • But he did not try me; he left the neighbourhood.

  • But I have suffered the tenderness of one to lead me into reflections that I did not think of making, to interrupt my narrative--yet the full heart will overflow.

  • The representative of my father, a being privileged by nature--a boy, and the darling of my mother, he did not fail to act like an heir apparent.

  • I took down with me some presents for my step-mother; it did not require an effort for me to treat her with civility, or to forget the past.

  • As her gaze rested on me her eyes opened wide in astonishment, and she made a little sign with her free hand; a sign which I did not, of course, understand.

  • I did not, of course, know the reason for which we had come to the open, but I was not long in being enlightened.

  • What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs.

  • Considerable freedom was allowed me, as Sola had informed me that so long as I did not attempt to leave the city I was free to go and come as I pleased.

  • Each face was the picture of awe and fear, but for what reason I did not know, nor did I learn until ten years later.

  • It was a sign of his good disposition that he did not slacken at all in his intention of carrying out Dorothea's design of the cottages.

  • He did not approve of a too lowering system, including reckless cupping, nor, on the other hand, of incessant port wine and bark.

  • Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?

  • No hurt I did not feel, no death That was not mine; mine each last breath That, crying, met an answering cry From the compassion that was I.

  • And yet I did not think of that Till after she was gone-- I knew her by the broad white hat, All ruffled, she had on.

  • I did not know, Then, that it was the last.

  • A house was never taken good care of, Mr Shepherd observed, without a lady: he did not know, whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady, as where there were many children.

  • It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.

  • This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have been anticipated on that head by their acquaintance.

  • It did not happen to suit the Miss Musgroves, I suppose, and they never put themselves out of their way.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle near; did not; did not know how; did not know what; did not know where; did not know whether; did not take long; did she; did this; did you; didactic poetry; diddle diddle; didna think; double line; dried brick; give alms; neither would; rather thin; replied she; speech made; sufficient degree; swamp dank and lone; thou shall; various quarters; when there; winter quarters