Example sentences of "[pron] not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 2 | Has she not improved out of all recognition ? ’ |
| 3 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 4 | But had he not fallen in with it too readily and too rapidly simply because it was a testimony to his secure tenure , a declaration before the world that he was a king indeed , and his progeny fit mates for the royalty of Europe ? |
| 5 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 6 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 7 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 8 | After this bad day , anyone not tucked up in bed is making them suspicious . |
| 9 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 10 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |