Example sentences of "not [vb pp] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 2 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 3 | Nicholson himself has clearly not considered a return to the saddle , remarking : ‘ There is not enough brandy in France to get me up again . ’ |
| 4 | Within twenty-four hours , Justine would be hanged , and I had not said a word to anyone about it . |
| 5 | He had his answer to questions about the events of that morning but he had not prepared an answer to any others . |
| 6 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 7 | I have not had a reply to a series of letters that I have sent , nor has the prospective Labour candidate in my constituency . |
| 8 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 9 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 10 | Er that is that at least three of the articles are talking to quoting different organisations er suggested that the playhouse theatre trust had been recommended to do something about their marketing er a at least two years ago if not longer ago erm certainly it 's my knowledge er they have not employed specialists to that they have not employed a specialist to that indeed since the last er appointed publicity officer left , that person that post has not been er refilled er could I ask the theatre trust why they have chosen not taken that recommendation seriously ? |
| 11 | Another claim is that a certain State has not become a party to a treaty , and therefore can not share in the distribution of values projected by it . |
| 12 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 13 | Rain noticed that he had not provided an answer to her question . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure your wrong , ’ said Anna , but she remembered how Maria Jakob had said that if the money was not forthcoming she must think of something else , a way to make up to her for Melusina 's death , and she had not meant a donation to the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 15 | Taking advantage of Guy 's momentary stupefaction , she wriggled out from under him and leapt off the bed , everything forgotten but the need to escape from something she dared not put a name to . |
| 16 | Doone gave me a sorrowful stare , but I had n't given a thought to his wanting secrecy . |
| 17 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 18 | And as she pushed open the forest-green doors of Woodline Design she realised with surprise that she had n't given a thought to Max for some considerable time . |
| 19 | She had n't given a thought to her lack of coif ; her mind was too occupied with trying to think of an excuse for remaining in her gown , and failing dismally . |
| 20 | The French plait she wore was fine for everyday , but she had n't given a thought to the more social occasions . |
| 21 | And the differences there between women in different countries are just enormous because there are still countries today where women are n't given a chance to be born — there 's female infanticide still in many countries . |
| 22 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 23 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 24 | I had n't said a word to her and and she she was she did n't talk to me . |
| 25 | ‘ How would you like to 'ave to show your legs in an orphanage just because you 'ad n't got a farthing to your name ? ’ |
| 26 | I have n't got a clue to be honest , you |
| 27 | Well I had n't got a chance to . |
| 28 | However , I have n't got a copy to hand and even if I had I ca n't be arsed looking through it . |
| 29 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 30 | Similarly , when she catches me watering my plants on the balcony we share , she says , ‘ Shame you have n't got a patch to muck about in . ’ |