Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] to [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not listened to her before . |
| 2 | The surprised way he had looked at her when she said it suggested that it had not occurred to him before . |
| 3 | All the children called her ‘ our Hilda ’ , though in fact Desmond and Margaret had not spoken to her more than once or twice in their lives . |
| 4 | Zoe had admitted her tactics in a weak moment , but sensing Louise 's disgust had n't referred to them since . |
| 5 | I wish I had n't spoken to him now . ’ |
| 6 | Strange that thought had n't occurred to him before . |
| 7 | Cormack took a card from his pocket , ready to deny everything , and wondering why the idea of divorce had n't occurred to him before . |
| 8 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 9 | The idea of its hurting or not hurting had n't occurred to me before , but now he mentioned it , it did seem preferable that it should n't . |
| 10 | She could n't think why it had n't occurred to her sooner . |
| 11 | So simple , she wondered why the idea had n't occurred to her before . |
| 12 | Martha replied , and left her twin sister blinking in astonishment at a possibility that had n't occurred to her before , but which was now enticingly attractive . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ He said it was a pity I had n't come to him before , when the evidence was there that he was living with this woman , because now the bungalow 's been sold and she 's disappeared . |