Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all .
2 If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ?
3 Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all .
4 Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all .
5 I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all .
6 Agnes duly went into labour about lunch-time one hot still day , pouring sweat and Omming to herself while my father boiled lots of water and things and Mrs Clamp dabbed Agnes 's brow and like as not told her of all the women she 'd known who had died in childbirth .
7 For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all .
8 His sister and both brothers have identical trust funds this million pound figure has grown to the size , just today around forty million because Prince because the Prince has not touched it in all these years .
9 Have they not eaten anything at all ?
10 He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come .
11 So he had not failed her after all !
12 It has n't stopped it at all .
13 Have n't heard anything at all have we ?
14 ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves .
15 She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father .
16 You have n't missed anything at all .
17 He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh .
18 If you get all serious , I 'll begin to wish I had n't said anything at all . ’
19 I have n't moved it at all .
20 Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ?
21 I have n't seen her with all her clothes off you know .
22 ‘ You have n't seen him at all ? ’
23 And during the last four years you have n't seen him at all , while I 've spent nine or ten hours a day with him , sometimes even more if we 're particularly busy .
24 Cos I , I have n't seen him at all .
25 If I think about it I have n't seen him at all .
26 I have n't seen him at all .
27 After all her husband is in Venice- and she had n't seen him in all the war years , ’ he said .
28 ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’
29 So she looked at me as if to say well I have n't got one at all .
30 ‘ So you see , ’ she said , as she finished explaining that the sheets must have disappeared from the flat , ‘ I have n't got anything at all to back up my story . ’
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