Example sentences of "[not/n't] done [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , said Abrams , almost visibly squirming , he was not in his department , and things are not done that way . |
2 | Mama has not done that . |
3 | Let your imagination roan with your desperately running heroine firmly in the centre of your mind and then from the incidents that will ( if you have a ration of luck ) spring up , arrange them in order of difficulty , if your intuition has not done that already for you . |
4 | Now you 've not done that you 've actually done his journey time . |
5 | She had not done that for a long time . |
6 | I 've not done that for years . |
7 | If you 've not done that exercise yet , it 's quite a useful one to find out what figures you come up with . |
8 | A person who is wrongly accused will know that he has not done that of which he is suspected , example , and may be indignant at being the object of suspicion . |
9 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
10 | It is terrible that , for 45 years , we have not done that — that is the scandal of our time . |
11 | Unfortunately , the last three or four Leaders of the House — I have forgotten the count — have not done that . |
12 | Asked to comment on the German government 's targets , Knauss said that they were no doubt based on a " very thorough " study , adding that " we have not done that level of study " . |
13 | Well we 've not done that at all . |
14 | But you 've not you 've not done that particular idea , tees ? |
15 | I have not done that before in my career , but I knew things would not happen for us without action being taken . |
16 | I 've not done that car out for ages . |
17 | Oh Matthew , you 've not done that very well then have you ? |
18 | Have they not done similar such publications knocking about the Green Party like catalogues for |
19 | The government has not done much to restrain it . |
20 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
21 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
22 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
23 | So far the authorities have not done much to stamp out this ever increasing malaise . |
24 | Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited . |
25 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
26 | By the same token , though , the new acts have not done much to bridge the gap between pop and country , either . |
27 | Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy . |
28 | Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies . |
29 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
30 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |