Example sentences of "not [vb pp] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 2 | Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat . |
| 3 | But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected . |
| 4 | REPLYING to the letter from Brian Hunter ( HAS March 30 ) in relation to food for diabetics in hospital , he has obviously not understood what the trouble was . |
| 5 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 6 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 7 | I would , he added mentally — if I had n't seen what the Luggage does to prying fingers . |
| 8 | ‘ So you have n't seen what the day has in store for you ? |
| 9 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 10 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 11 | Changes in social mores are reflected in the current definition of family of black sheep , and we have n't asked what the current erm , definition of family of black sheep is . |
| 12 | As , heels clicking on the polished slabs , Luce followed the black-clad figure through the shuttered gloom she remarked , ‘ I have n't discovered what the palazzo is called , or who owns it . |