Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 3 | I had not heard it used by anybody else until it was uttered by Jim Taggart , well known to TV viewers as Glaswegian . |
| 4 | Sometimes if there was an illness in the house the sick person would join in the prayers through the open doors but when the silence was not broken he nodded to Mona and she took up Rose 's Decade . |
| 5 | Excellent as the tutor/student relationship may be , it has failed if the teacher , in satisfying your thirst for knowledge , has not taught you to depend on yourself . |
| 6 | He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany . |
| 7 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 8 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 9 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 10 | Although I have not seen it scratch against rocks recently , it does still occasionally gulp air from the surface . |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend said that we had inflation licked in a way that we had not had it licked for years . |
| 12 | Adam had not known he carried within his mind a directory of the forbidden . |
| 13 | She touched him with a hunger she had not known she harboured inside her . |
| 14 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 15 | we 've got the fencing well no , no you ca n't Jane because you 're not insured you see until |
| 16 | As for Felipe , he had not asked her to stay in Spain with him . |
| 17 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |
| 18 | She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour . |
| 19 | She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ ! |
| 20 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |
| 21 | She was charming and gentle and life had not fitted her to cope with the forty assorted females now in her care . |
| 22 | It had n't stopped her putting on make-up , though , just a touch of eyeshadow and mascara , and a tiny puff of perfume at the base of her throat . |
| 23 | I have n't heard it put like that , but I think it 's a very accurate and perceptive one . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't heard you sing in ages . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Man , I ai n't heard you play since the days of the old Mimosa Club , ’ said Lloyd with a thoughtful expression . |
| 26 | Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security . |
| 27 | ‘ I did ask him why he had n't let me know on his way there that he would be coming later . |
| 28 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 29 | However , she has n't let it get to her : ‘ I do n't think I have suffered from the male domination thing as much as other women might because I 'm a belligerent , stubborn , loud-mouthed bastard , basically ! ’ |
| 30 | I would n't have done , if I had n't felt you deserved to be thanked for looking after the dogs . |