Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 2 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 3 | When I looked I found I had not only a gun but also a kitchen knife and a saw . |
| 4 | To be honest , during most phases of flight the stick force is fairly low in any case , and I found I did n't really need it . |
| 5 | ‘ I was disappointed when I found you did n't either . |
| 6 | Seriously though there can be no way that Wilko let him go not even for 2.75 million . |
| 7 | Others found they had not even recorded all of the interviews . |
| 8 | We found they did n't really get jumping until closer to midnight . |
| 9 | He found he did n't really need drugs anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've thought so much more about you since I imagined you did n't even want to see me again . |
| 11 | Foxes were ‘ humanely snared ’ ( a contradiction in terms ) and handed over to ‘ various voluntary welfare organisations ’ ; they were then ‘ transported we know not where ’ . |
| 12 | As the curtain rattled on its rings , she realised she had n't even the satisfaction of a door to bang in his face . |
| 13 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 14 | ‘ From the moment she arrived I did n't really see Mandy . |
| 15 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 16 | The crunch came when I found out she was sleeping with a couple of other boyfriends , and I discovered I did n't actually care . |
| 17 | I had no idea , ’ Paula said , surprised she had not already heard the news . |
| 18 | Your magazine discovered they did n't legitimately earn enough to meet their bills ? ’ |
| 19 | On their return they discovered he had not only done as instructed but painted the trees which lined the drive as well . |
| 20 | this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries . |
| 21 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 22 | Jessamy gave a small shiver and decided she did n't even want to consider that possibility . |
| 23 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 24 | Leonora confessed she had n't really given it much thought , all her attention on the weather as Penry loaded the boat . |
| 25 | There are a few examples of maverick programmes ( like Rapido ) selling themselves , so , encouraged , we decided we had not too much to lose ( more money … ) : we should check out the world 's biggest film and TV market , MIPCOM . |
| 26 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 27 | When we first started we did n't even like sequencers and samplers , we had cheap guitars and we could sound like The Buzzcocks . |
| 28 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 29 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 30 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |