Example sentences of "n't [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I have n't heard a word from the record company , and have n't received a penny ! ’ |
| 2 | In the same letter to Nannerl , of 3 or 4 November , 1785 , Leopold was grumbling that he had n't heard a word from Wolfgang recently , but that a journalist friend had mentioned something about a new opera . |
| 3 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 4 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 5 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 6 | We ai n't heard a word from Jimmy have we ? |
| 7 | I have n't heard a word of this so far . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I do n't want a word with him . |
| 9 | They are quite certain I do n't know a word of Greek but even so they 're still very cautious . |
| 10 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 11 | ‘ Jimmy , who had n't said a word , suddenly said , ‘ You know , Leslie , you 've been a bit of a bastard , have n't you … |
| 12 | But Susan had n't said a word about leaving St Petrock 's . |
| 13 | The Abbot had n't said a word since the arrival of the new nomes . |
| 14 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 15 | He had n't said a word since his last attempt to bamboozle the androids who had brought them more bread and water . |
| 16 | You have n't said a word about that ! |
| 17 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 18 | So far he had n't said a word but he spoke then . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't said a word ! ’ |
| 20 | She remembered uneasily that he had n't said a word about it . |
| 21 | She has n't said a word since and refuses to eat or drink . ’ |
| 22 | Her defences were already activated and registering red alert , and he had n't said a word yet ! |
| 23 | Although she had n't said a word , he lifted his black head and , peering into her face , asked , ‘ What is it ? ’ |
| 24 | No I have n't said a word . |
| 25 | I had n't said a word to her and and she she was she did n't talk to me . |
| 26 | He told me , ‘ You do n't speak a word to anybody else , and when I 've hit that ball , we 're on our way . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What 's the good of your endless French lessons when you ca n't speak a word of the language at the end of them ? ’ |
| 28 | When Dad returned he did n't speak a word to either of us . |
| 29 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 30 | Not bad for a little girl of 4 who , just over a year ago , could n't speak a word of English ( could barely speak , indeed , a word of anything ) . |