Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 No wonder Collias did n't really enthuse me .
2 That he intended her to be the sensation of town Dinah did not yet realise , but if she had done so it would not have disturbed her .
3 The name Stirling does not even feature in Monty 's memoirs , but Virginia Cowles has written a fair account of what happened .
4 Even the other two guests laugh — a woman called Pattie whose husband has just left her , and a man whose name Howard does n't quite catch .
5 There is always a man from just down the road , or the basement flat , or the office , whose name Howard does n't quite catch , and who was up at Cambridge just after all the rest of them .
6 ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity .
7 For all his scrupulously clean musicianship Hardy does not yet command the range of colour and accent of Shlomo Mintz — witness the windover-the-graves scales at the end of the first and last movements .
8 But Seventies soccer star Chris did n't just find it hard .
9 ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 …
10 But referee Hart did not even award a free kick .
11 In fact Mozart did not fully appreciate the gravity of the situation .
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