Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were the paleness and emotion on his face as he arrived not fury at Pipkin 's performance but symptoms of poison ? |
| 2 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 3 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 4 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 5 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 6 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 7 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 8 | ‘ You going on all right , girl ? ’ enquired Mrs Yaxlee who , though she did not commune with nature , was nevertheless comradely with it . |
| 9 | Its leaders claim Lee Harvey Oswald did not gun down JFK and insist there was a cover-up . |
| 10 | For Tip it was probably because he very nearly did not caddie for Arnold Palmer at all . |
| 11 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 12 | The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness . |
| 13 | And , but he did n't sort of point and say anything . |
| 14 | The incident was not reported in the press and probably would have gone no further than the arrest and trial of the Falangist aggressors , had not protests from Generals Galarza and Varela ( who was present at the mass ) threatened to turn it into a major governmental crisis . |
| 15 | Had not John of Gaunt been reckoned the richest man in the kingdom ? |
| 16 | I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’ |
| 17 | Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world . |