Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from their undoubted strengths in these matters , the Germans have also been motivated by the belief that Germany 's ( and Europe 's ) disunity was an unnatural state which had not existed in the past . |
| 2 | Bush polled 88 per cent of the vote compared with 2 per cent for Buchanan ( who had not campaigned in the state ) and 17 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 3 | The Confait Case ( 1977 ) illustrated how innocent suspects could be pressurised into confessing to something they had not done in the face of sophisticated techniques of interrogation and rather less sophisticated threats . |
| 4 | Rain wished for her sake that the cup had not rattled in the saucer . |
| 5 | The fact was , he had not felt in the book the impress of Walter Machin 's personality , as he had come to know it — or to think that he knew it . |
| 6 | When the king 's agents bought the wool it fetched much less than the expected price and the scheme collapsed , leaving resentment amongst the producers , the lesser merchants who had not participated in the scheme , and those who had been paid in Dordrecht Bonds . |
| 7 | Although air units from Malta had not participated in the action , this day ( 29th. ) a 69 Squadron Maryland was despatched from Luqa to reconnoitre the area . |
| 8 | Wolfgang Schäuble , parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , had on Aug. 31 suggested that financing for the east should be raised by the introduction of a compulsory 5 per cent interest-free investment bond , repayable after 1996 , ( i ) for those earning over DM5,000 per month gross who had not bought special eastern solidarity bonds ; or ( ii ) for businesses with more than 20 employees which had not invested in the east . |
| 9 | The " ordinary reader " would infer that the " fixing " had involved the team as well as Packer , and that the captain of the team would have been party to the plot even though he had not played in the match . |
| 10 | All colour had faded from the sky : and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind ( as though to insist that it had not disappeared in the darkness , but was still firmly where it had been put ) , there was no passer-by to read the sharp , hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its white surface . |
| 11 | Detective Inspector Milsom said with deep feeling that this had not helped in the investigation so far . |
| 12 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 13 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 14 | The court 's decision was based on a finding that M Touvier had not acted in the context of a ‘ concerted plan of extermination ’ by the state . |
| 15 | Ins Terry Johnson said the type of theft had not happened in the town for some time and asked store owners and staff to be on their guard . |
| 16 | ‘ For the competitions a number of new challenge trophies were presented including those for the men 's scratch championships which the club had not held in the past . |
| 17 | Formed groups are alarming mostly : Frederica had not come in the expectation of enjoying herself . |
| 18 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 19 | Perhaps he had been bored , perhaps he simply had n't believed in the danger . |
| 20 | A pity Simon had n't stayed in the kitchen . |
| 21 | Because I had n't put in the back . |
| 22 | I went down again to his room to make sure he had n't returned in the night . |
| 23 | Well no they were n't really , they were n't they had n't worked in the quarry like like us . |
| 24 | He had n't come in the van . |