Example sentences of "[vb past] not the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Buddie 's orders ringing in his ears , he stood his ground and made not the slightest move to obey . |
| 2 | He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people . |
| 3 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |
| 4 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 5 | Cedric ate them is vast quantities and with evident enjoyment but they , like everything else , made not the slightest difference to his condition . |
| 6 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 7 | She got up , gazing at him ; for this seemed not the crazy figure of recent days , but Jake as she remembered him from years ago , her own father . |
| 8 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 9 | He paid not the slightest attention . |
| 10 | Her face betrayed not the least preparedness to concede , to give up her role . |
| 11 | But no sooner had this new approach been introduced than criticisms were mounted : not only the costs and slowness of improvement schemes , but also the social conflicts inherent in gentrification when improvement benefited not the original occupant but an incomer where areas of working-class housing ( particularly in London ) were transformed into desirable enclaves for higher-income households . |
| 12 | The first-floor museum for the Ancient History of Tel Aviv–Jaffa just round the corner was well cared for , although it recorded not the Arab history of Jaffa but the Biblical history of the land ; there was an exhibition to illustrate the Israelite Royal Period ( 930 BC ) with references to King David . |
| 13 | Elinor , used to prompt obedience to her wishes , flew into a rage , of which the nurse took not the slightest notice . |
| 14 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 15 | Miss Potts took not the slightest notice but swept into the second form classroom and the door shut . |
| 16 | On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy . |
| 17 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 18 | He gave not the slightest sign of having heard her , continuing to stroke her neck , and now inserting his fingers under the neckline of her nightshift . |
| 19 | He wore a pure-white sleeveless jerkin casually open at the front , white tights that left not the slightest doubt about his gender , thigh-high white boots . |
| 20 | As for Karen , she left not the slightest impression on me . |
| 21 | The had not the least idea that their love was a crime in people 's eyes . |
| 22 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 23 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 24 | To whom , he had not the least idea . |
| 25 | She had not the least interest in the fortunes of Italy , did not care that once more liberty and unity were the watchwords , and it astonished her that Mrs Browning could seem as anxious about war as she did about her sister 's health . |
| 26 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
| 27 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 28 | Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren . |
| 29 | ‘ Naylor ! ’ she sighed again in the utmost rapture , and , clutching him , had not the smallest demur to make when he removed her bra and began to caress the swollen mounds of her pink-tipped breasts . |
| 30 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |