Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 2 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 3 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 4 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 5 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 6 | Roy had given Paul Nesbitt a note of the board requirements — horizontals and verticals — in early September , but the information had not gone to Harry . |
| 7 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 8 | So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired . |
| 9 | Lowe had not gone to Canada for just academic reasons . |
| 10 | It reported that West Germany was seeking to end restrictions on the export of digital switching equipment , civilian satellites and mobile radio networks to eastern Europe on grounds that restrictions on the export of these items had not applied to China since 1985 . |
| 11 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 12 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 13 | He had not retired to bed sober , but then he rarely , if ever , did . |
| 14 | In his letter , Brig Cordy-Simpson said that since Gen Mladic had not replied to UN proposals on how the airlift would be managed , it was assumed that he had agreed to them . |
| 15 | Edward had not taken to Giles Carnaby . |
| 16 | She had not taken to Mrs. Mott . |
| 17 | Apart from his former wife , Mr Edward Stratton was the only one of the original group who had not listened to Morse that morning . |
| 18 | Perhaps , in this parable , Jesus is criticising the Jewish leaders who , in their self-righteousness , had not listened to God . |
| 19 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 20 | This conclusion had not occurred to Derek , but it was true nonetheless . |
| 21 | It had not occurred to Melissa that Madame Gebrec would even remember her invitation , let alone wish it to stand , but there was no doubt of her sincerity as she said , ‘ No , not this evening , but another time , please . |
| 22 | It had not occurred to Richard Branson , even in his wildest dreams , to own an airline . |
| 23 | She simply told me how relieved she was that her husband had not put to sea that day . |
| 24 | Johnny had not come to Rose Cottage during those last days of term . |
| 25 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 26 | Dunegal of Nithsdale had not come to Thorfinn 's standard , nor had any of the men of Dumfries and the western lands of St Cuthbert . |
| 27 | He had not come to Canterbury to dissipate the rights of his church . |
| 28 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 29 | He had not spoken to Miss Needham-Burrell himself and had no idea how old she was . |
| 30 | Thank God , she thought , Urquhart had not spoken to Swod first . |