Example sentences of "who [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was a Libyan involved , the police proceedings were accompanied by self-help action , although the influx of foreigners had created a number of potential offenders and victims who did not fit into the system . |
| 2 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 3 | Two foreign suspects who did not reply to the judge 's summons will be tried in absentia . |
| 4 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
| 5 | She came round the corner , this tiny thing who did not reach to the top of the bed board even with the extension of the umbrella . |
| 6 | Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book . |
| 7 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 8 | Both Delaunay and Le Fauconnier , who did not exhibit at the Galerie de la Boétie either , were at this point on less friendly terms with the other members of the movement , and for this reason their works were not illustrated in Du Cubisme . |
| 9 | Nor does the imputation take account of people who did not appear on the Census form returned for their household ; the extent of the undercount , and the approximate breakdown of the missing persons by age and sex , can be estimated by comparison with the Registrar-General 's population estimates ( Census Newsletter , October 1992 ) , but no further adjustment to the statistics has been made . |
| 10 | We have heard extensive submissions in this court from Miss Mary Arden ( who did not appear in the court below ) on behalf of the appellant . |
| 11 | Lower-class women who did not come into the black or immigrant categories would be expected to use the general waiting-room , rather than the ladies ' , which was largely the preserve of the well-dressed middle class . |
| 12 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 13 | Elizabeth had introduced her system of fines for those who did not conform to the state religion , and the Roscarrocks had been forced to sell off all but this last small bastion of the Old Faith , perched on the edge of Cornwall . |
| 14 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 15 | The great majority of those who took an active part in the work of the Association were natives of Lewis , and several of those who did not belong to the island were Gaelic-speakers from similar areas . |
| 16 | At that time anyone who did not belong to the Church of England was regarded with contempt and prevented from holding many official positions . |
| 17 | All three of England 's players who did not play against the Railways on Wednesday — Gladstone Small , Eddie Hemmings and Alec Stewart — get a game today , although there is a slight doubt about Phillip DeFreitas , who suffered a reaction to an elbow injury sustained during fielding practice . |
| 18 | For Elizabeth , as for many other philhellenes , it was a real sacrifice and to be respected ; but those of us who lived and worked here were grateful to writers who did not join in the boycott — to John Bailey , Francis King , Peter Levi , Lady Longford , Nancy Mitford , Iris Murdoch , Barbara Pym , Muriel Spark and others . |
| 19 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 20 | Mrs Proffitt told the tribunal she was advised to hold a disciplinary hearing and she wrote to Mrs Mawdsley , who did not respond to the letters . |
| 21 | Of the 23% who did not approve of the devolution , some commented on the speed with which the new system had been introduced and of the lack of opportunity for staff development ; others were concerned that localised development meant duplication of effort . |
| 22 | Yet there are few who did n't recoil from the chill of The Silence of the Lambs or feel a sense of bleakness as JFK unfurled its theories . |
| 23 | Enormously impressed by this friendly , helpful girl , who did n't seem in the least like most receptionists she encountered , Ellie slid back the registration card , accepted her plastic key , gave one of her funny little smiles , and decided that before going up to her room she 'd better try and find Donal . |
| 24 | But supporters who did n't apply through the proper channels could find themselves missing out on Billy Bingham 's swansong match . |
| 25 | There were people in Britain who did n't share in the national tendency to apathy . |
| 26 | Who had n't heard of the Counterweight Continent ? |
| 27 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 28 | Service , for 18 months , was compulsory for men over 19 who had not served in the Soviet army . |
| 29 | the prodigal son , but you also have the second part of that which is almost a separate story of , the son who had not gone into the far country . |
| 30 | He rested his glass on the paunch now , regarded them owlishly , and gave the impression , as always , of someone who had not gone through the usual process of growing up , but had remained a toddler , magnified to the nth degree . |