Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose not to buy it that day , so I was interested to see whether a longer look at it would change those initial impressions . |
| 2 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 3 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 4 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 5 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
| 6 | And we have it on the authority of those sitting near her that she did not drink it that evening . ’ |
| 7 | She did not tell me that . |
| 8 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 9 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 10 | ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through . |
| 11 | If we had not provided you this delay , and this opportunity , what would you have done ? ’ |
| 12 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 13 | I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia . |
| 14 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 15 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
| 16 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 17 | But it did not make him more in charity with Chips Salter . |
| 18 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 19 | He had not checked them all personally . |
| 20 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 21 | He had not told her all he knew , she was sure of that , but he had confirmed her deduction about the provenance of the Durance paintings although he had stressed she could prove nothing . |
| 22 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |