Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be seen in : ( 211 ) Have I not bidden you never to look upon the face of woman ? |
| 2 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 3 | It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function . |
| 4 | He had put in an appearance , perforce , at the ceremony at the Tower , to appoint his proctors , but returned to Chester as soon as he decently could , and had not left it again to come to the council at his own manor of Kennington , sending only one of his esquires with a report on the situation — admittedly an admirably full and expert report — to lay before the assembly . |
| 5 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 6 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 7 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 8 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 9 | Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones . |
| 10 | ‘ You have n't brought me here to tell me she 's dead . ’ |
| 11 | But of course they had n't found me anywhere to live . |
| 12 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 13 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 14 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 15 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 16 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 17 | Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale . |
| 18 | I 've never used it before to think of impossible things not things that are absolutely impossible … ’ |