Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 2 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 3 | He did not yet have a chancery of his own , but it seems he did have his own chapel , that is , a team of household chaplains ( presumably equipped with relics ) . |
| 4 | The respondent did not however consult a solicitor until March 1990 and prior to that time did not carry out , or arrange for the carrying out of , any investigations . |
| 5 | In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July . |
| 6 | Being a skin did not normally imply a break with your family . |
| 7 | In four years on French soil they did not even acquire a liking for wine . |
| 8 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 9 | Allen thought this ‘ a very ingratiating-type comment ’ with no substance and no meaning ; he did not even make a note of it . |
| 10 | The 28-year-old singer did not even wear a wedding dress for the service , which she kept secret from most of her friends . |
| 11 | He did not even force a grin . |
| 12 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 13 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 14 | The Queen did not even buy a gift for herself . |
| 15 | She did not even have a blanket , she had no money for food , and no idea of where to go for help . |
| 16 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 17 | For two years until autumn 1991 and Dr Chiappini 's appointment , it did not even have a director . |
| 18 | They did not even have a rowing-team , as far as he was aware . |
| 19 | The Convention of Human Rights did not even rate a half-hour adjournment . |
| 20 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 21 | In 1835 , for example , just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem , we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country , it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects . |
| 22 | The idea of Kevin 's rewarding him for his prowess with a real lunch somewhere acted as a spur to Jasper , but he did not really need a spur . |
| 23 | So obvious is this problem that it did not really need a questionnaire to highlight it . |
| 24 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 25 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 26 | The Bill did not therefore uphold a woman 's right to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 27 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 28 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 29 | The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 proved a setback , however , and Brandt 's ‘ Ostpolitik ’ did not fully become a reality until he himself became Chancellor . |
| 30 | Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina . |