Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so worried that she had not given one thought to the fact that she was here in her nightdress with Felipe standing looking down at her . |
| 2 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 3 | The SEC , however , have not limited their zeal to specific individual targets . |
| 4 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 5 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 6 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 7 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 8 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 9 | He got off too lightly at the time and history has not brought his memory to full justice . |
| 10 | Had he not plodded his way to the fairs and markets , to the countless isolated communities in villages and hamlets , the English race would have been immeasurably poorer in its literature , its recreations and its memories of the past . |
| 11 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 12 | While the US Congress remained hostile , the US administration had not voiced its opposition to the proposed agreement in spite of its previous strong objections to any forced repatriation , preferring instead to maintain a " neutral reaction " to deportations . |
| 13 | It has been changed by the influence of sociology and anthropology but it has not surrendered its distinctiveness to them . |
| 14 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 15 | He felt guilty but relieved that he had not put his name to it . |
| 16 | William Wallace of Elderslie , son of a Renfrewshire landowner , was one of the lesser gentry who had not put his name to the document of submissions , known as the Ragman 's Roll because of the ribbons dangling from its seals . |
| 17 | In a reference to the ANC 's suspension of the armed struggle in August , Mandela said that this was done to further the peace process but that the movement had nevertheless not forfeited its right to self-defence . |
| 18 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 19 | Great Britain was almost the only remaining State which had not extended its protection to this important art . |
| 20 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |
| 21 | Indeed , she was asked why she had not sent her children to the mine . |
| 22 | Priscilla White was going to own a ‘ lor ra , lor ra ’ hairdressing salons if she had not changed her name to Cilla Black and become a singer . |
| 23 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This episode has not changed my attitude to managing Celtic and I will be going before the board to give them my plans for the future ’ Liam Brady |
| 25 | I have not changed my decision to disburden myself of the task . |
| 26 | He 'd torn it free , pocketed it , had not mentioned its existence to Buchanan . |
| 27 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you telling me you have n't posted my letter to Richard ? |
| 29 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 30 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |