Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talkative driver had n't stopped chatting from the moment Mark had entered the cab . |
| 2 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 3 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 4 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 5 | She had n't forgotten going to the pictures with Vernon to see The Song of Bernadette . |
| 6 | And Mrs Hazell was going so slowly , she was n't expected to deliver within the next hour or so , and anyway , I had an important appointment to keep . ’ |
| 7 | Was that the reason she had n't said to watch for the noticeboard ? |
| 8 | This market was n't built to deal with the numbers of animals passing through it . |
| 9 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
| 10 | She had n't dared to explore outside the confines of the hotel 's extensive grounds . |
| 11 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |
| 12 | So I was spinning the cam round , it had n't got pinned to the shaft , just spinning it round on the shaft and these pawls were doing this and Les , the top one , he went to Kettering and then Don , the next top one , he went to er |
| 13 | At least she had n't had to wait over the lunch-hour . |
| 14 | As she stood in the hall , the recollection of the high-pitched voice seemed almost eerie to Mrs Blakey ; so did the fact that she had n't bothered to think about the call-box signal . |
| 15 | First , Winston McLeod , a back four player for Continental FC : ‘ The school system is n't equipped to deal with the black kids ’ needs . |
| 16 | Everything , in fact , except the 50MHz 725 which because of non-standard packaging is n't scheduled to ship until the second quarter . |
| 17 | If he had n't wanted to invest in the Rose Bowl he could simply never have suggested it … |
| 18 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't wanted to look at the barometer in the last four |
| 20 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |
| 21 | It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee . |
| 22 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 23 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 24 | She protested that she could n't go home , that she was n't allowed to hang around the house during the day , and Bunny said he did n't care where the hell she went as long as it was out of his sight . |
| 25 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 26 | you would n't you still were n't allowed to go to the funeral ? |
| 27 | That 's like some boys done in my school and they got caught and then they were n't allowed to go to the disco . |
| 28 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 29 | Erm and I But there again , if it was a controlled access to the flats , and people was n't allowed to wander through the flats . |
| 30 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |