Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 2 | absolutely filthy , oh I ca n't be like it , I said she did n't ground it just dirt |
| 3 | My stay in Government had not made me less radical but more so . |
| 4 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 5 | Mrs Scutt , being an old hospital bird , had no difficulty in translating Robins ' euphemistic message , or in placing Charlie , though she had not met him before . |
| 6 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 7 | But Phoebe had not wanted her there , had not wanted her love and concern and caring . |
| 8 | Fenna did not want her to bleed , and because Fenna did not want it , she had not wanted it either . |
| 9 | If the incoming Conservative Government had not swept them away at once it would today seem no less difficult to abolish the ‘ social service , of subsidised food than the ‘ social service ’ of subsidised housing . |
| 10 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 11 | Rosemary had not returned from her parents ' home yet ; Travis was either still abroad or was coping better , for he had not contacted her again . |
| 12 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 13 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 14 | It was a bridesmaid 's dress , left over from her cousin 's wedding in Charters Towers last year , and she had not worn it since , but the brief glimpse she had had of the other female guests had told her that her more casual outfits would not do tonight amongst the Hamiltons ' sophisticated entourage . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne knew that Neil was Stair 's brother ; she had met him , and had not liked him much . |
| 16 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 17 | She had not liked it before , did not like it now , and the throng of tourists who had also disembarked , wearing baggy floral shorts , trussed with the straps of cameras and rucksacks , was irritating . |
| 18 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 19 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 20 | She had not accepted it yet . |
| 21 | By 1989 JET had been able to exceed each of these values individually but had not achieved them simultaneously . |
| 22 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 23 | His lips had shown a passion and need that had equalled her own but he had not pressed it any further . |
| 24 | The woman — Rab , with the wine , and so took-on with the barman , had not noticed her before — sat across from him , over a small , square tin-topped table . |
| 25 | She had not noticed them before . |
| 26 | ‘ I had not noticed it before . ’ |
| 27 | He was known to be ‘ worried about Marcus ’ , but Franca had not asked him exactly what the worry was . |
| 28 | His face was so unguarded that if she had not loved him as much she would have been afraid for him . |
| 29 | The ghost of his burning ; an ugly mask-fire , fear and evil-a mark that had spread across his face ; it had not covered him completely . |
| 30 | Perhaps they had not cleared it properly with the Romanians . |