Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 2 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 3 | did n't thought of that |
| 4 | I did n't thought of that |
| 5 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 6 | In 1763 the Cours des Aides , one of the chief legal and financial institutions of the monarchy , asked for the convocation of the States-General ( a national representative body , organized by social orders , which had originated in the later Middle Ages and had not met since 1614 ) . |
| 7 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 8 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 9 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 10 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 11 | Board and paper recycling , which amounts to 26 per cent , had not increased since 1974 . |
| 12 | He said the changes were unjustified because civil legal aid spending in Scotland had not increased in real terms from 1987-88 to 1991-92 . |
| 13 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 14 | Justice Department and CIA officials had made mistakes in how they had handled certain classified information concerning BNL loans , a series of errors which Lacey characterized as " a fiasco " , but they had not engaged in any criminal wrongdoing . |
| 15 | Later , he refused to certify to the Inland Revenue that the company had not engaged in further similar transactions , and he was sacked . |
| 16 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 17 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 18 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 19 | Jeffrey , who had been the youngest MP , but not for long , and the deputy chairman of the Party for a little while , considered that he had not done at all badly . |
| 20 | She was not a good artist and she was wearing company , but she must have some redeeming qualities , although Madeleine Corley and her companions at Tourettes sur Loup had not hinted at any . |
| 21 | Women had not emerged as equal partners with men in public life . |
| 22 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 23 | Mr Donaldson emphasised the delay had not contributed in any way to the eventual death of the mechanic , William Donnelly . |
| 24 | Zeinab had not heard about this . |
| 25 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 26 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 27 | He had not moved for four , maybe five , hours . |
| 28 | Even in prison he had not felt like this . |
| 29 | Rain noticed he had not argued about Sabine Jourdain 's role in painting the Durances . |
| 30 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |