Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that the man or woman does not exist who had never made a mistake , however foolish . |
| 2 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 3 | Really , she could not think what had come over Harold . |
| 4 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 5 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 6 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 7 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 10 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 11 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 12 | Floy had asked about dangers and what they might expect to encounter , but Fenella did not think it looked especially dangerous . |
| 13 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 14 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 15 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 16 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 17 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 18 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 19 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 20 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 21 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 22 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 23 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 24 | After all , he was a very clever man , and sometimes , when he did not think she knew , he gave her some very peculiar looks that made her shivery inside . |
| 25 | My conversations with her gave me no inkling to that effect , and , although she was ambitious , I do not think she felt that her time had come . |
| 26 | Miss Cress should not think she had let things go . |
| 27 | She might not think she had changed but she was too old for that ! |
| 28 | Mrs Brocklebank had been quiet lately about the tragic possibilities of the house , but he did not think she had forgotten . |
| 29 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 30 | He would often ask about Dinah and his family , and send them affectionate messages ; Nathan passed these on to Dinah , but he did not think she spoke of their father to the children ; it was better not . |