Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 2 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 3 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 4 | Our young labourer Kevin , whom I 've not mentioned for a while , gets the strenuous pick and shovel jobs . |
| 5 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 6 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 7 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 8 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 9 | ‘ Switzerland have not qualified for a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup finals and have grown used to losing . |
| 10 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 11 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |