Example sentences of "[verb] not [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He astonished himself with the reply , giving not Estabrook 's address , but that of another place entirely . |
| 2 | Why did n't Japan 's ever-prudent and oh-so-dominant bureaucrats step in to prevent it ? |
| 3 | Why did n't Lisa 's boyfriend come to the pub ? |
| 4 | I did n't Matthew 's football ? |
| 5 | But why did n't Elaine 's name mean anything to her ? |
| 6 | ‘ Did n't Ted 's wife die young ? ’ |
| 7 | That gave Standard a stranglehold on the oil market which it might still enjoy had not America 's trustbusters split the company up . |
| 8 | Why had n't Shamrock 's owners looked after her and loved her as we had done ? |
| 9 | So it 's that does n't Cindy 's now see if we can put the lorry back or see if the |
| 10 | A late nineteenth-century Hepplewhite revival led to an 1897 reprint of the Guide by Batsford , and a modest myth grew up around George Hepplewhite , who was stated to have been apprenticed to Gillows of Lancaster and London ; in 1801 , however , they wrote ‘ We have not Hebbelthwaite 's Publication . ’ |
| 11 | I have n't Aline 's academic approach either . |