Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's no gummed edge so the paper was n't ripped off a pad . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who gets toothache but is n't registered with a dentist wo n't be accepted . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 4 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 5 | I I mean I think I think in retrospect the erm this is n't intended as a criticism erm of past work , but I do think we need to look at getting as much volunteer help in the town towards volun volunt environmental achievements as possible because one of our one of our claims is that we 're cost effective and can galvanize voluntary effort , and if we erm put all of our work out to tender including relatively small works , we 're actually going to negate that particular claim and we 're gon na look as as as er cost cost wasteful as the district council and the county council in their use of professional help all the time , even though there may be people in the community who are prepared to help . |
| 6 | It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read . |
| 7 | ‘ I sure have n't heard of a film starring a plumber before , ’ says Mario . |
| 8 | ‘ There are always disagreements between committee members , Chief Superintendent , but I have n't heard of a club murder this century . |
| 9 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 10 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 11 | No cos if I have n't heard in a fortnight you know you 're not getting any in . |
| 12 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 13 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 14 | Her voice was more natural as she said : ‘ I 'm surprised you were n't treated as a suspect . |
| 15 | I have n't arranged for a secondary . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's an experienced player now and I would be disappointed if he had n't matured as a player all round . ’ |
| 17 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 18 | you do n't christened at a baptist church |
| 19 | Some of this experimental technology will go into SAS release 6.09 , most will roll into version 7.0 , which is n't expected for a couple of years yet . |
| 20 | And I think it would now be most unlikely for a speculative proposal that had n't come through a planning system to succeed . |
| 21 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 22 | Was you getting funny cos I ai n't come to a party every week ? |
| 23 | Girls at the back of the room , we have n't come for a chat . |
| 24 | I was n't trapped within a vision of my femaleness . |
| 25 | Spellbound , she could have stood there gazing indefinitely if her ankle , which unconsciously she 'd put weight on , had n't protested with a stab of pain . |
| 26 | So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did . |
| 27 | mistake is obvious like one estate I 'm dealing with which is a half home-made will I E it was n't made by a solicitor , I suspect it was made by a barrister I suspect it was a barrister who was born abroad |
| 28 | That ai n't shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 29 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 30 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |