Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 2 | Why did Doctor Lanyon think that he had not long to live ? |
| 3 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 4 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 5 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 6 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 7 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 8 | Anna was in danger of dying because he had not enough to offer her to replace what she would be losing . |