Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 2 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 3 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 4 | ‘ I have not stabbed you in the back , dammit ! |
| 5 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 6 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 7 | He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself . |
| 8 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 9 | We have n't seen them in the village . |
| 10 | I have n't seen you in the shop for some time . |
| 11 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 12 | Now if you leave can I suggest leave erm leave half a page empty if you have n't got it in the front yet . |
| 13 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 14 | I said I have n't put it in the bin . |
| 15 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |