Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed .
2 No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do .
3 Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done .
4 We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need .
5 If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup .
6 It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed .
7 Now I 've not given you a lot of chance to speak because you said you do n't want to go and to , but I want
8 If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so .
9 ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’
10 Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town .
11 She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester .
12 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
13 Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat .
14 Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself .
15 But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected .
16 I understand that you wish to run the tape on UNIX on Sun/3 , but you have not told us the tape density you need .
17 I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth .
18 We are not told who the petitioner is .
19 If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future .
20 REPLYING to the letter from Brian Hunter ( HAS March 30 ) in relation to food for diabetics in hospital , he has obviously not understood what the trouble was .
21 ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected .
22 It is difficult to believe that the submission , valuable for the record and indeed used by Baldwin in his House of Commons speech the following afternoon , would have been sent had Baldwin not satisfied himself the night before what the answer would be .
23 She had not imagined him a sportsman .
24 Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ?
25 I have come home and there is not left me a place on which to pitch my lodge .
26 Perhaps it would have been had the South American dealer not ignored his every letter , fax and telephone call requesting confirmation of delivery date .
27 Lacking travel warrants , I could not have come home on leave had my father not sent me the fare . )
28 It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires .
29 then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and
30 ‘ But you have n't given me an answer . ’
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