Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 2 | There was a bank of salmon traps over at Clapton which he had n't visited for ages . |
| 3 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 4 | Mike was on his way home from school when he met his uncle whom he had n't seen for ages . |
| 5 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 6 | Brushing out her hair and applying some make-up , something she had n't done for ages , she put on her mac . |
| 7 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 8 | They had n't met for years . |
| 9 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 10 | ‘ It was like those people had n't eaten for days , ’ a Wells Fargo spokesman said later . |
| 11 | Now the time had come , he felt weak and lightheaded , as if he had n't eaten for days . |
| 12 | Sir John grinned his thanks , took his own pewter spoon from his wallet , drew his dagger and set to as if he had n't eaten for days . |
| 13 | But since the day when Willi had brought her up here , to his farm , she had won back something she had n't had for years , a sense of balance , of proportion , a sense that there were a great many other things , other people in the world other than Therese Aschmann and her problems . |
| 14 | It looked like he had n't washed for months , and had deliberately slept in the worst hovels every night . |
| 15 | They had n't slept for hours . |
| 16 | Masklin had n't slept for hours . |
| 17 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 18 | For all at once she could feel sweeping in on her a sense of utter desolation , the like of which she had n't known for years . |