Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When it 's time to sleep , why not set her here on the chair to watch over you ? ’ |
| 2 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 3 | He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country . |
| 4 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 5 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had not cleared it properly with the Romanians . |
| 7 | that 's right , well the thing is these are , I was looking at the power today I , er not read it properly in the past , there only four rounds , these have got to be A , if you want both A and B on |
| 8 | But it has n't given him much of a clue about setting up a restaurant . |
| 9 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 10 | You have to keep the horrible thing if you have n't got anything else in the space . |
| 11 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 12 | But I have n't called you here for a professional opinion . ’ |
| 13 | Now that he 'd told her , she could n't understand why she had n't recognised him right from the start — she 'd seen the article , had even marvelled at the way the photographer had managed to capture those dark , brooding eyes . |