Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I have not stabbed you in the back , dammit ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 16 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 17 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 18 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 19 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 20 | I 've not seen him since the split . ’ |
| 21 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |
| 22 | Cos I 've not seen it with the curtains |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | That has not got you into the Kingdom of God . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But they have not replaced it with a presumption that the market can always be left to get on with it . |
| 30 | Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation . |