Example sentences of "not [vb pp] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Teacher Teresa 's bitter family said in the seven months since the accident they had not received one expression of remorse or sorrow from Mrs Fenton . |
2 | He had not uttered one word during their entire briefing . |
3 | ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other . |
4 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
5 | She said quote , I really do n't accept the agency argument , I 've not met one family that has continued with agency care . |
6 | Well , put it this way your sudden appearance has not made one bit of difference to my day . |
7 | So despite his record being at No. 6 and getting played 15 times on Radio One last week , Felix has not made one appearance anywhere . |
8 | All these people there this weekend and I 've not seen one dog go out ! |
9 | He said that the Commission ‘ has not wavered one iota ’ in its determination to ensure competition . |
10 | She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time . |
11 | I 've not had one tool that 's done what I tell it to do every time . |
12 | ‘ But they have not had one crib about it . |
13 | ‘ So do I , ’ I said , but I 'm not bothered one way or the other . |
14 | The remainder are ‘ not bothered one way or the other ’ . |
15 | The fact that Nadia has only the little finger on each hand has not produced one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils at the Borders preparatory school . |
16 | I hope , after listening to this set of examples , I have not replaced one stereotype with another . |
17 | I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper . |
18 | For one blinding moment she knew absolutely that Galileo should have died for his truth , and yet had also been right to retract because he had still not known one particle of the whole . |
19 | Where there are conflicting practices ( as there were in this case ) , negligence is not established by proving that the defendant has not followed one practice . |
20 | Word-processors , because the text is not printed one line at a time but as a complete document , allow you to break from convention and set the text level to the right-hand margin or even level with both the left-hand and right-hand margins . |
21 | In 20 years of running the flock — now numbering 150 sheep — at Broadview Farm , Blacknest , he had not delivered one set of quads , let alone two in one week . |
22 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
23 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
24 | ‘ At my wife 's generous insistence I have not deducted one penny for the week you have spent in bed under our roof , being nursed back to health by the kindness of your mistress 's heart . ’ |
25 | He has not changed one bit . |
26 | So Mrs. Pedelty ( who collects 11,0001. in rent and has not subscribed one farthing in relief ) has regained several hundred valuable acres , while the British Treasury has acquired two hundred and fifty more mouths that can be fed only through relief . |
27 | Personally , I much prefer the former approach but having said that wo n't pretend for one minute that I have n't received one hell of a lot of advice from people in the past . |
28 | I have n't filled one side up yet . |
29 | I have n't heard one trainer or racegoer come out against it , which is unusual for moaning about something new is the norm these days . |
30 | I have n't seen one church official saying that Halloween should be scrapped and we should n't be celebrating it , or maybe the churches ought to be er putting forward some idea of their own . |