Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 2 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 3 | In 1640 he was given the minor office of master of the Posts , but did not retain it beyond 1641 , at the end of which year he suffered a short spell of prison for alleged defiance of a parliamentary order . |
| 4 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 5 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
| 6 | He did not accept it until 1909 when he became its proclaimed prophet . |
| 7 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 8 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 9 | Like because their account , you know , if you write , like if I wrote a cheque out to you today , and you did n't cash it for four weeks |
| 10 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to get beyond the hype and because I suspect the real reason behind the criticisms of the leader of the opposition is because the chief executive did n't invite him on one or two of these trips , because |
| 11 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 12 | Went past the garden , they did n't find her for thirty minutes the little girl ! |
| 13 | She did n't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall . |
| 14 | I did n't hear it at one o'clock , did you ? |
| 15 | I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours . |
| 16 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 17 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 18 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 19 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 20 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 21 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 22 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 23 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 24 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 25 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |