Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH it was pleasing to see so many people out shopping last Saturday , I did not approve of the Oxford Street poster which urged people to ‘ Shop until you drop ’ . |
| 3 | I told Harold that I did not approve of the appointment , but for reasons that he would not greatly appreciate . |
| 4 | It does not embarrass me at all to say that I did not approve of the principle of the community charge . |
| 5 | A bucket of slops was thrown over the edge , I did n't enquire of the contents , followed by a five-point turn , the boat was nearly as wide as the canal ! |
| 6 | Gus Dudgeon : I had n't heard of the guy before . |
| 7 | Teething gel ( I had n't heard of the homeopathic granules then ) just before a feed established normal feeding again . |
| 8 | And I had n't thought of the blessed man in the last two hours — at least barely thought . |
| 9 | ‘ I had not thought of the card , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 11 | Of the 23% who did not approve of the devolution , some commented on the speed with which the new system had been introduced and of the lack of opportunity for staff development ; others were concerned that localised development meant duplication of effort . |
| 12 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 13 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 14 | Who had n't heard of the Counterweight Continent ? |
| 15 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 16 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | The children ; one dared not think of the children . |
| 18 | They did not know of the Indian hot springs nor of Chatterjee 's ideas . |
| 19 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 20 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 21 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 22 | The interesting feature of the case is that the corporation exacted the payments under a mistake of fact — they did not know that the limestone was to be burnt into lime , while the plaintiff made the payments under a mistake of law — he did not know of the exemption . |
| 23 | ‘ I wonder why he did n't speak of the Friar ? ’ |
| 24 | No , the man said , sighing as he downed the last spread of goat 's cheese , he had not heard of the Borrowdale cuckoo . |
| 25 | He claimed he had not heard of the Virgin Mary either . |
| 26 | He had not heard of the complaint , but promised : ‘ If we have a personal complaint , we would take it up . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , North did testify that Poindexter had supervised the November 1985 shipment of US arms to Iran , an important statement given that four of the five felony charges against the defendant arose from statements to Congress that he had not learnt of the shipment until January 1986 . |
| 28 | He had not spoken of the cigar butt to the Station Chief … |
| 29 | Allan McKay 's father , a gas engineer , Ian McKay , 40 , told Mrs Paton that at the time his son disappeared he had not known of the existence of the quarry . |