Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would n't have been so bad if he had n't swore at me so much , that was worse than hitting me . |
| 2 | Zoe had admitted her tactics in a weak moment , but sensing Louise 's disgust had n't referred to them since . |
| 3 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 4 | When he looked back at her , his face was dark with an anger she had n't seen in him before . |
| 5 | His eyes had a distant , cold remoteness she had n't seen in them before , and she knew instinctively that something was very wrong . |
| 6 | and and Steve said , No I had n't heard of it actually . |
| 7 | But it seemed Ace had n't finished with her yet , and soon she was incapable of any thought at all , rational or otherwise , as he took her once more to the edge of paradise . |
| 8 | Did it mean he had n't finished with her yet ? |
| 9 | Bernice had n't finished with him yet . |
| 10 | Filming on the farm took 5 days to complete , but as Albert 's son , George explains , the film crew had n't finished with him yet . |
| 11 | She had n't looked at it quite that way before . |
| 12 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
| 13 | I had n't worked with her before . ’ |
| 14 | She had n't cried about him before . |
| 15 | I wish I had n't spoken to him now . ’ |
| 16 | Strange that thought had n't occurred to him before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For one thing , although I was ready for the challenge of the theories of life and death in Re:Joyce , it had n't occurred to me how many references there were to fathers , including a beautiful sequence in the sketch ‘ First Flight ’ . |
| 21 | She could n't think why it had n't occurred to her sooner . |
| 22 | So simple , she wondered why the idea had n't occurred to her before . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 25 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 26 | She should have got something to drink while she waited for the chemist but she had n't thought of it then . |
| 27 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |