Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made a big thing about us sort of not using one millimetre holes using |
| 2 | Teacher Teresa 's bitter family said in the seven months since the accident they had not received one expression of remorse or sorrow from Mrs Fenton . |
| 3 | If those pressures exist , as the hon. Gentleman asserts , they are spread evenly across the system and do not affect one institution more than another . |
| 4 | He had not uttered one word during their entire briefing . |
| 5 | The purchaser of a life assurance contract does not make one payment at the beginning of the contract but pays a premium in instalments over a number of years . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other . |
| 7 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
| 8 | ‘ So give , ’ Steve husked , obviously still feeling his loss and talking about it not helping one bit . |
| 9 | Erm the preponderance of our members throughout the length and breadth of the country , er initially was not to accept three year package deals . |
| 10 | Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent . |
| 11 | She said quote , I really do n't accept the agency argument , I 've not met one family that has continued with agency care . |
| 12 | But it did not matter one iota what the stuffed shirts , or even that first audience of regular people , thought . |
| 13 | Well , put it this way your sudden appearance has not made one bit of difference to my day . |
| 14 | So despite his record being at No. 6 and getting played 15 times on Radio One last week , Felix has not made one appearance anywhere . |
| 15 | I mean it 's not costing two pound to send that ! |
| 16 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 17 | All these people there this weekend and I 've not seen one dog go out ! |
| 18 | I 'm not recommending one form of love over another . |
| 19 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 20 | The guides suggested that Johnson , so as not to tire one horse wholly , should alternate between mounts . |
| 21 | He said that the Commission ‘ has not wavered one iota ’ in its determination to ensure competition . |
| 22 | Do not believe one word of what your mother says about Whangdoodles and Hornswogglers and Snozzwanglers and Vermicious Knids and the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler . |
| 23 | When I tell the girls , I thought , they 'll not believe one word of this . |
| 24 | She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time . |
| 25 | I 've not had one tool that 's done what I tell it to do every time . |
| 26 | ‘ But they have not had one crib about it . |
| 27 | ‘ So do I , ’ I said , but I 'm not bothered one way or the other . |
| 28 | The remainder are ‘ not bothered one way or the other ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I never saw a play before , ’ said Gabriel , to indicate in the politest possible way that he did not understand one word of what Lucie was telling him . |
| 30 | I 'm not paying three pound a packet |