Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
4 | Children will encounter the Christian Church in the outside world , and will meet with Christianity among their contemporaries as they grow up , even if they have not met it at home . |
5 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
6 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
7 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
8 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
9 | I have not woken them at dawn with my racket , I have not drawn on the wall in felt-tip , I have not hugged Wally the cat round the neck , I have not spat out my liver and spinach , put worms in the watering can , cacked my pants , made brown finger paintings on the wall … |
10 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
11 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
12 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
13 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
14 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
15 | She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed . |