Example sentences of "not [vb pp] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 2 | In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories . |
| 3 | The man had gone to sleep , or at least that was what Mahmoud suspected , and that , to Mahmoud , was an even harder thing to admit than that he had not posted a man in the first place . |
| 4 | I 've not enjoyed a dip in the briny since a little moonlighting I did , some time in the 1500s , when I helped a Greek pal of mine sing some mariners to their doom . |
| 5 | Worse still , this sluggish growth has not prevented a rise in inflation . |
| 6 | But the question that young pilots would want to know the answer to is this , erm are there aircraft anywhere in the world with which you have not made a comparison in terms of air superiority ? |
| 7 | WHY has my insurance gone up by 30pc in one year when I have not made a claim in 40 years , touch wood ? |
| 8 | Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great ! |
| 9 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |
| 10 | The accused has not appropriated a thing in action , because the bank did not owe the money to anyone . |
| 11 | But back at WHS headquarters , Sir Malcolm seemed unperturbed by the commentaries , pointing out that the group had not had a reduction in profits for ‘ many , many years ’ . |
| 12 | The scheme is available , free of charge , to employees under 65 who have not had a test in the last three years . |
| 13 | In fact , he 's not had a lesson in his life and is unlikely to start now as Muirfield does n't even have a professional 's shop ! |
| 14 | I 've not got a P in the anagram so I do n't think it can start with |
| 15 | You are not at your home , you have not crossed a bridge in Berlin … you are in Mordovia , in a Strict Regime camp . |
| 16 | Oldham 's other keeper , 19-year-old Paul Gerrard , has not played a game in nine months after two knee operations and made his comeback in the reserves last night . |
| 17 | We have not found a diminution in gastric acid output in old subjects with histologically normal stomachs under basal or stimulated conditions . |
| 18 | Those were things that had not necessitated a vacation in the south of France . |
| 19 | In Group A , Sampdoria will qualify if they win at home against a Panathinaikos side who have not scored a goal in their five previous matches . |
| 20 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 21 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 22 | Just when it looked as if they were starting to put something together ( they had not lost a goal in their previous four matches ) , along came Dundee to ruin it all . |
| 23 | In the absence of any guarantees , Rangers may care to comfort themselves with the knowledge that the club have not lost a game in which McCoist has had to replace Richard Gough as team captain , the list including three previous European ties this season . |
| 24 | If the taxpayer makes a potentially exempt transfer he pays no IHT when the gift is made and will pay no IHT at all with respect to the gifted property if he survives the gift by seven years ( and has not reserved a benefit in the gifted property ) ( IHTA 1984 , s3A(4) ) . |
| 25 | It occurred to Thomas as he listened to her that Sara had not changed a whit in the whole time they had been married . |
| 26 | Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each . |
| 27 | There are thousands of people in Liverpool who have not paid a penny in poll tax and here they are threatening a young girl with court action for arrears of a paltry 41p . |
| 28 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 29 | But Alan Govier from Oxford has n't received a penny in pension payments . |
| 30 | And they have n't received a penny in compensation . |