Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 3 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 4 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 5 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 6 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 7 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 8 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 9 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 10 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 11 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 12 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 13 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 14 | You 've not heard nothing about it ? |
| 15 | Now from my observations of these debates I 've not heard anybody on this council saying council debates that there is no role for this local authority or any other local authority there is no role for them in the provision of residential care or any extension of residential care because some of our residential care is getting very , very close to providing a degree of nursing care . |
| 16 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 17 | But I 've not heard anything of him since I last left food and some clothes for him , and that was three days ago . ’ |
| 18 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 20 | Clive wondered why they had not heard anything from downstairs . |
| 21 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 22 | Haines obviously finds the idea of one machine for all , possibly based on Taligent , conceptually attractive , but says he has not heard anything in IBM about a merging . |
| 23 | Yeah , but , I mean I was just , erm , I found that very informative as well , I was very disappointed that if that much money er , information was available that we were not given it as members , because it would have made decision making far more sensible , but erm , |
| 24 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 25 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 26 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 27 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 28 | Whilst building society interest rates have halved over the last 18 months or so , annuity rates have not fallen anything like as much , because they depend upon the rates on long-term bonds . |
| 29 | Under this stage all holders of vouchers who had not placed them with investment funds were able to use them to apply for shares in the 1,500 companies selected for privatization . |
| 30 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |