Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know .
2 She 'd not seen them .
3 I 'd not seen him for six months .
4 I 'd not seen 'er since 'fore dawn .
5 She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it .
6 if they 'd not done it .
7 When I say he looked my Grandmother 's age group and he he looked bulimia even though he 'd not done it .
8 ‘ I 'd not forgotten him , but I just could n't see why he 'd want to kill her .
9 Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile .
10 She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises .
11 As I read that decision , it was held that she had not made them fixtures .
12 On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar .
13 About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it .
14 He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " .
15 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
16 My stay in Government had not made me less radical but more so .
17 I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier .
18 Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession .
19 The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time .
20 The Conservative administration had not made it good , said Borrie ; government had not created either the demand or the supply of credit .
21 His remark , delivered , in a weary , satirical voice , had made me notice at once how young he was , though I would have noticed soon enough , I suppose , even if he had not made it .
22 She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen .
23 This was a separate transaction from the auction and the auctioneers had not made it clear that the exemption clause was being incorporated into it .
24 The court held that the covering letter had not made it clear that the seller was intending to contract on his own terms and conditions , and that he had merely mentioned the offer by way of reference for its main terms ( eg quoted price and delivery ) .
25 Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch .
26 Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months .
27 Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform .
28 In addition to the non-literary sources cited above , there is rather strong evidence in Shakespeare and Marlowe — especially in puns of the type air , heir , hair — that [ h ] -dropping was salient in the speech community : clearly , the puns could not have worked if the ‘ groundlings ’ had not recognized them ( see , for example , Comedy of Errors , III.ii.122–3 ; Dido and Aeneas , I.i.10 ) .
29 He had not kissed her or looked back , just sprinted across the snow .
30 He could have gone on , recklessly , but he was unwilling to reach a consummation where she shared any abandon with him ; he had not forgiven her .
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