Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
| 2 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 3 | ‘ But you have n't given me an answer . ’ |
| 4 | I have n't given him a thought for years … ’ |
| 5 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 6 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 7 | Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought . |
| 8 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 9 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 10 | Had n't given her a key , but Lucy supposed that there were limits . |
| 11 | They 'd also like comments from this Parish Council , and it was odd that they have n't given us a sketch to look at . |
| 12 | Dry-eyed , I acquiesced when it finally hit the bag of clothes for ‘ Poor Peggy , she 's you-know-what-again , God help her ’ , and I 'm delighted to say I have n't given it a thought since . |
| 13 | Ferguson added : ‘ I have no preconception about which particular strikers will go best together , and have n't given it a lot of thought yet . |
| 14 | Not stolen , we have n't moved it an inch . |
| 15 | I 'll I promised Mr a list but I 've had a very busy week and have n't done him a list this week and I have promised and I 've broken a promise . |
| 16 | No I ai n't got you a pressie . |
| 17 | I have n't told them a thing . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You have n't told me a thing , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’ |
| 19 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 20 | And he has n't bought me a Renault er , I , I think , I , I 'd like to make the , the comment that in general the money which can be controlled at site level is that related to labour and plant . |
| 21 | and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me . |
| 22 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |
| 23 | Very well I do n't have n't worn it a lot in Stowmarket I |
| 24 | ‘ My son has n't called me an asshole yet , ’ said Jim . |
| 25 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 26 | The bastard had n't left her an ounce of pride . |
| 27 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 28 | And then I , I was at Doctor 's but he er he has n't sent me a letter . |
| 29 | Er , I have n't sent him a letter back yet cos I thought , wondered whether anybody 'd like to volunteer to write , I sent a card last year . |