Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 2 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 3 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 4 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
| 5 | Preliminary studies showed that , with this method of delivery , the radiolabel did not disperse beyond the first 5 cm of the ileal segment . |
| 6 | Infusion of the liquid bolus at a slow rate ensured that the isotope did not disperse beyond the first ileal segment ; the present results confirmed the effect of a cholinergic agonist and antagonist on transit in the ICJ and colon , suggesting that the model is valid . |
| 7 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 8 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 9 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 10 | ( After the fall of the Greek Empire , the knowledge of many arts , including the art of horsemanship , gradually disappeared and did not re-emerge until the sixteenth century . ) |
| 11 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 12 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 13 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 14 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 15 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 16 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 17 | The pace did not slacken in the fifth . |
| 18 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Fortunately , ’ managing director Hugh Collinson says , ‘ our season did not start until the third week in May , so we did not have any holidaymakers there when trouble flared up . ’ |
| 20 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 21 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 23 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
| 24 | This certainly did not apply to the next great dog of influence on the British show scene : Ch. |
| 25 | If a prisoner did not apply in the next term after execution to receive the benefit of the Act , he lost it . |
| 26 | Arsenal won their first five matches and did not lose until the tenth . |
| 27 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 28 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 29 | Stanhope had some important business in Manchester and did not attend on the last two days , as neither did Roberts , who was ‘ not very well ’ . |
| 30 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |