Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 2 | Here was a further cause for retrospective anxiety which , had I not re-examined Fraser McLuskey 's Parachute Padre , might have haunted me . |
| 3 | On that particular occasion , had I not recognized Miss Kenton 's footsteps on the boards as she came towards me , I would have been able to identify her only from her outline . |
| 4 | Have I not given satisfaction ? ’ |
| 5 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 6 | How an argument began , then a fight , how Leonard would have been killed had she not hit Otto over the head . |
| 7 | Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ? |
| 8 | Had she not heard Sarah 's cry of outrage the moment before she opened the carriage door and caught John in that position ? |
| 9 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 10 | Has she not passed dogs on or ? |
| 11 | Had she not known Félix so well , Alice thought , touching the necklace at her throat , she might now be feeling as if there were some kind of trap closing slowly about her . |
| 12 | Taking care not to be burned by the sun ( had she not promised Max ? ) . |
| 13 | Have you not made confession , then ? |
| 14 | Have you not seen Ken ? |
| 15 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 16 | Let me ask you , have you not told Mrs. Jervis for one ! |
| 17 | Have you not told Mrs. Jervis ? |
| 18 | I think we would have advanced to the stage we are at had we not used animals in the earlier stages for medical research . |
| 19 | Have they not had chicken pox ? |
| 20 | Have they not had pressure from people that would |
| 21 | ‘ And why was it not made plain by you — by you — the consequences of such slackness , eh ? |
| 22 | After all , had it not led Eliot into seeming to endorse the anti-semitic French royalism of Charles Maurras ? |
| 23 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |
| 24 | India 's foreign-exchange reserves would have disappeared had it not borrowed $1.8 billion from the IMF in January . |
| 25 | Had he not taught music , his second choice would have been PE , says Mr Essex , who comes originally from Didcot . |
| 26 | Had he not smoked dope ( if only once ) ? |
| 27 | Remarking that he would not have forgiven Boswell had he not brought Johnson to Monboddo , he showed the travellers a stalk of corn , his laetas segetes , his abundant crop , and remarked that Virgil , to judge from his writings , seemed an equally practical and enthusiastic farmer . |
| 28 | Why , wondered Senator Rudman at the hearings , had he not taken North into his office and closed the door and put him up against the wall and pushed him and pushed him and pushed him ? |
| 29 | Yet had he not had signs enough ? |
| 30 | He could have been in a hotel , had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get . |