Example sentences of "she [vb past] not [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She needed not empty lands but fur , and the natives were the best suppliers of this fur .
2 She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open .
3 Maggie went across to him quickly , trying hard to think of something to take his mind off his sister 's minor crime , but she had n't much chance of that .
4 She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood .
5 Short of making an embarrassing scene , she had n't much option .
6 She had n't last time I , cos we were talking about er when I say talking I do n't mean nastily but the last time I saw Janet I asked after Wendy and she said she was still working and enjoying her job and the children were growing up and she did n't mention any other children so cos her husband works away a lot of the year does n't he ?
7 She did n't look much like my idea of a prostitute either , but that was because she had n't any make-up on .
8 ‘ The single ? ’ he 'd said , knowing that she had n't any money .
9 Rosie … well , she had n't any money , had she ?
10 No , she had n't any friends , because he would n't like it .
11 At the time when Shanti was preoccupied with the subject of identity , she expressed the thought that she had n't any choice in the matter : we had taken her whether she liked it or not .
12 She knew she had n't any choice anyhow but to agree .
13 The apartment had been cleared by his men , and she had n't any family in town .
14 And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother .
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