Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would be happy to provide such assistance ; however I have not included it in my fee indication since in our experience , time at this stage is very much dependent upon the skill of your lawyer and the complexity of the issues , which are not known at this stage . |
| 2 | Whereas " wars have not solved anything in our region " , Shamir suggested that peace could " turn the Middle East into a paradise , a centre of cultural , scientific , medical and technological creativity " . |
| 3 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 4 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
| 5 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 6 | His main problem , however , was that he had not told anyone of his trip , and his predicament went unnoticed . |
| 7 | I mean I they 've got a , a stall on the market , I 've seen something on the market on that stall , but they 've not got it in their size and they 'll say to you , ooh , go over to the shop , you know , and you go over |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 9 | They now claim a 1% reduction in this disease , compared with an estimated increase of 1.5% if they had not stuck it in their selection index ( see page 49 ) . |
| 10 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 11 | Managers have probably sanctioned the purchase of computer hardware and software but have not involved themselves with their use . |
| 12 | Since he had not delivered it to his customer ( M ) he had ‘ continued ’ in possession ( albeit wrongfully ) . |
| 13 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 14 | She seemed irritated that he had not taken her into his confidence by using Akhenaten 's real name . |
| 15 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 16 | They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip . |
| 17 | I 've not mentioned it to your mother yet , but since the thing is such a success , I think you should stay , through the summer at least . |
| 18 | If his tutor and his mother had not restrained him despite his desire , The boy , as boys will , would have rushed off on foot . |
| 19 | She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed . |
| 20 | He had n't joined them in their walk that afternoon . |
| 21 | He obviously had n't stinted himself with She-She back there . |
| 22 | She swallowed hard , thankful she had n't made it to their house . |
| 23 | She has n't said , since we said that off that time , she has n't said anything about her office experience . |
| 24 | ‘ Because we have n't seen her since her barbecue , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Swire Sugden seemed very impressed with Mollie but then he had n't seen her with her skirt tucked in her bloomers showing her skinny legs . |
| 26 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 27 | I would n't have noticed this if Jack had n't drawn it to my attention . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to a clinic , taking the larva with me , to get it identified , and 10 minutes later back came a message : ‘ I hope you do n't mind if I keep it , I have n't got one in my collection . ’ ’ |
| 29 | Cos you have n't got them in your hand . |
| 30 | and I have n't got them in my club book , any ideas ? |