Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd not got on at Didcot , though . |
| 2 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 3 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 4 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 5 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 6 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 7 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 8 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 9 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 10 | For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped . |
| 11 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 12 | It had not turned out like that . |
| 13 | The speech of 26 April 1942 , held against the theatrical back-cloth of the summoning of the Reichstag , had not lived up to expectations . |
| 14 | Reality had not lived up to expectations . |
| 15 | PESC , PAR and the CPRS had not lived up to initial expectations , and changes in the departmental pattern had failed to produce either significant administrative gains or organizational stability . |
| 16 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 17 | She hoped Veronica Puddephat had not moved out of the Red House after the separation . |
| 18 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 19 | Their minds had not reached out to the terror of what had in fact happened . |
| 20 | They include Dennis and Kathleen Tate , of Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , who were visiting their daughter , but who had not ventured out of her apartment since the troubles began . |
| 21 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 22 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 23 | It was held that the virtue had not gone out of films as films . |
| 24 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 25 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 26 | Even then , Sarah had not given up on her marriage . |
| 27 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 28 | Heaven send they had not given up on her ! |
| 29 | Whatever the occasion , Fagan had not dressed up for it . |
| 30 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |