Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 3 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 4 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 5 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 6 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 9 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 10 | ‘ I have not stabbed you in the back , dammit ! |
| 11 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 12 | She told him her perfume came all the way from Hollywood , in America , where she herself would have been living these last nine years if only Frankie 's birth had not robbed her of the life of glamour and excitement she deserved . |
| 13 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 14 | I 've not seen him since the split . ’ |
| 15 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | That has not got you into the Kingdom of God . |
| 20 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 21 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
| 22 | She has certainly not privatized it from the Constitution , for all Michael Heseltine 's complaints . |
| 23 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 24 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 25 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 26 | Now , has he not left it with the Parish Council ? |
| 27 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 28 | If your studies have not taken you to the point where you can answer all the questions , answer those that you can and some of them twice . |
| 29 | Had Jamie not warned her from the beginning that he was dangerous , and that he wanted Swift Investments to further his massive ambitions , she would have responded to his sex appeal , his hard good looks , his cool , clever wit . |
| 30 | Daak 's aerobatics had n't shaken it off the shuttle . |