Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] see the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 2 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 3 | While the market as a whole has shrunk over the past five or six years as the generational pattern of collecting and dealing has shifted , it did not see the boom prices of the 1980s and therefore has not experienced the recession to the same degree as some other areas . |
| 4 | Consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process . |
| 5 | Editor , — Stella Lowry underplays a striking finding of David Wilson 's survey of 33 consultants in Yorkshire : he found that consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process . |
| 6 | His eyes lifted to the window , but they did n't see the telegraph wires or the railway tracks or the range of dusty yellow hills beyond . |
| 7 | And we did n't see the warning signs and then when we had this serious situation it er it it nearly it nearly swamped us . |
| 8 | No , Declan , I did n't see the West Ham game last night , I just had the radio on . |
| 9 | And now I have had a letter from Katie Mallett , saying she will not be entering no 3225 ‘ because I did n't see the TV exposé of Summerhill , and have n't got the faintest clue what it 's like ’ . |
| 10 | So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament . |
| 11 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 12 | I did n't see the auld man . |
| 13 | And another witness , who had been in the car park , said in a statement to police that he had not seen the policeman check underneath his car before getting . |
| 14 | The questionnaire was therefore designed in such a way that teachers who had not seen the Solihull booklet would not complete part one . |
| 15 | I had not seen the upstairs rooms since they were finished , but I remember the job they had with the bathroom , and with this . ’ |
| 16 | Although they had not seen the Harbour Master 's orders themselves , there seemed a distinct possibility that all ‘ normal ’ use of the water was about to end . |
| 17 | They had not seen the party programme and regulations , nor any copy of their own journal Young Guard . |
| 18 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
| 19 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |