Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 3 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 4 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 5 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 6 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 7 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 8 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 9 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 10 | Orwell would not have put it like that . |
| 11 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 12 | My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’ |
| 13 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 14 | This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case . |
| 15 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly . |
| 17 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 18 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |
| 19 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 20 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 21 | ‘ You should n't have taken her like that . ’ |
| 22 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |
| 23 | This fact was discovered by Gregor Mendel in the last century , although he would n't have put it like that . |
| 24 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’ |
| 26 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |