Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time .
2 The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum .
3 The kind of music she had not heard for a long time .
4 She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
5 The home owner had not waited for the bureaucratic processes to be completed ; she had acted out of the goodness of her heart .
6 But she had not bargained for a complete refusal to attend .
7 Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear .
8 One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked .
9 People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president .
10 This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years .
11 ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it .
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