Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 2 | He had not even been at the party . |
| 3 | She had not even been in the country long enough to register with a doctor . |
| 4 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 5 | To troops who had not yet been through the mill at Verdun , passing men whom they were about to relieve was an unnerving experience ; they seemed like beings from another world . |
| 6 | He had not yet been to the Hankses ' cottage to visit Anna , and it was of this the gipsy first spoke . |
| 7 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |