Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 2 | She did n't mentioned it did she ? |
| 3 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 4 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |
| 5 | She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour . |
| 6 | She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ ! |
| 7 | Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them . |
| 8 | Yet the photographs proved it had not stopped her pursuing her curiosity to Oxford . |
| 9 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 10 | She had even considered the possibility that the old fool 's frantic efforts to match a young wife had been the cause of his death , and the idea had not caused her to turn her eyes away and evade the issue . |
| 11 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 12 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 13 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 14 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 15 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 16 | I had not heard it used by anybody else until it was uttered by Jim Taggart , well known to TV viewers as Glaswegian . |
| 17 | They had not felt they had the right to refuse to participate , and video recordings are very threatening in their very nature , and in Doug Green 's case his Head of Department , Mary Law , was his ‘ friendly critic ’ . |
| 18 | If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’ |
| 19 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 20 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 21 | If the pilot 's warning had not prepared him to recognise them , Rostov would have been unable to distinguish the Simonova 's reception party from the deckhands working around them . |
| 22 | She had told him nothing of what her interviews with Mrs Diamond and Morpurgo had yielded and he had not pressed her to do so . |
| 23 | The landlord had not noticed him come in , or he would have refused to serve him . |
| 24 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 25 | As for Felipe , he had not asked her to stay in Spain with him . |
| 26 | What they would not yet do , and what Thorfinn had not asked them to do , was to fight as a nation , north beside south , no matter what the threat . |
| 27 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 28 | Maybe it was this gentle , comfortable house where a man who had not loved her had loved others , strangers to her . |
| 29 | It could however intervene if any of the following defects were present : if the agency relied on factors which Congress had not intended it to consider ; failed to consider an important aspect of the problem ; offered an explanation which ran counter to the evidence before the agency ; was so implausible that it could not be sustained ; or failed to provide a record which substantiated their findings . |
| 30 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |