Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 2 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 3 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 4 | Lucien accepted this praise with downcast eyes , aware that the most accomplished of Mandru 's vibrancers were biting their knuckles in shame , because they had not practised diligently enough to emulate Lucien 's glowing performance . |
| 5 | They were interpreted as explaining why radiation had not spread out uniformly to create the newborn universe but had produced impurities , or primeval seeds , whose gravitational forces had attracted increasing amounts of matter to clump together to form galaxies , clusters of galaxies and stars . |
| 6 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 7 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 8 | This woman was not his wife , and she had not come out here to seek conversation . |
| 9 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 10 | If he had n't come out here to find Chesarynth for me . |