Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I 've not heard anything of him since I last left food and some clothes for him , and that was three days ago . ’ |
| 4 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 6 | Clive wondered why they had not heard anything from downstairs . |
| 7 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was the last of his nightly chores and he looked around once more to make certain that he had not forgotten anything before going up to the room where his young wife was resting . |
| 12 | That is partly because the editors have not included anything on the ‘ mainstream ’ alternatives to the tokamak — stellarators and tandem mirrors for example As the title says , the book is devoted to unconventional approaches — some would use the word ‘ eccentric ’ — to fusion . |
| 13 | Brooke 's Cabinet colleague R. A. Butler , on the other hand , took a rather more robust view — confiding to the BBC 's Director General , Sir Hugh Greene , that he had not enjoyed anything on television so much for years . |
| 14 | Whereas " wars have not solved anything in our region " , Shamir suggested that peace could " turn the Middle East into a paradise , a centre of cultural , scientific , medical and technological creativity " . |
| 15 | His father had not expected anything of the kind and was disappointed . |
| 16 | Mr. Wilson : The Hon. Gentleman has not added anything to my previous comment . |
| 17 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 18 | Was it possible that her sister had taken on a new maid for the Fanshawes ' flat and not said anything about it ? |
| 19 | ‘ He has not said anything about it to me , ’ the letter continued , |
| 20 | There was only one crumb of comfort ; she was very glad that she had not said anything about it to Connor . |
| 21 | So far , we have not said anything about how these two kinds of analysis might be related . |
| 22 | obviously not said anything to Pete about me |
| 23 | Freud himself said apropos Totem and Taboo that ‘ I have not written anything with so much conviction since The Interpretation of Dreams . |
| 24 | The government has not done anything about smoking . |
| 25 | How could she have known , I thought , and not done anything about it ? |
| 26 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
| 27 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 28 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 29 | Harry Fenton says they 've not done anything like it before . |
| 30 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |