Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 2 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 3 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 4 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 5 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 6 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 7 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 8 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 9 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 10 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 11 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 12 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 14 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 15 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 16 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 17 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 18 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 19 | Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours , but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport . |
| 20 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 21 | Of course , Mr Nakamura could not have done it without a lot of help from his staff : two of them resigned with him and all other executives are taking a six month pay cut of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent . |
| 22 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 23 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 24 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 25 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 26 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 28 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 29 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |