Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [verb] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rested his glass on the paunch now , regarded them owlishly , and gave the impression , as always , of someone who had not gone through the usual process of growing up , but had remained a toddler , magnified to the nth degree . |
| 2 | Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain . |
| 3 | Also , it would be possible to remove a licence from someone who had not looked after animals properly . |
| 4 | He took the scuffed leather document case off the seat beside him and banged the door shut with the violence of someone who had not learned that car doors do not need the same sort of treatment as those of railway carriages . |
| 5 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 6 | He did n't exactly look like someone who had n't had any sleep . |
| 7 | It was something a stranger might do — someone who had n't learned to take the view for granted . |
| 8 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 9 | Insurers say a non-smoker is someone who has not puffed the weed for 12 months and does n't plan smoking again . |
| 10 | The mandatory penalty of life imprisonment for murder makes issues of relative culpability non-justiciable at present , since the length of imprisonment is ‘ determined or partly determined behind the scenes by someone who has not heard any representations by or on behalf of the prisoner on grounds which the prisoner does not know ’ . |
| 11 | These are , of course , useful if you want to send a compressed file to someone who has not got the same compression program , so can not de-compress the file at the other end . |
| 12 | When the number of members on the committee is small , it may be difficult to abide by the proviso that the amendment must be seconded by someone who has not spoken on the original motion , and in that case common sense prevails . |
| 13 | It is quite difficult to explain to someone who has not experienced past-life regression how they will feel . |
| 14 | ‘ Show me someone who has n't done that and I 'll show you someone who 's been so sheltered they 're gon na be dull . ’ |
| 15 | So if you need to approach someone who has n't seen you , you should touch them to show you are there , especially someone who may be confused . |
| 16 | ‘ We came to meet someone who has n't turned up . |
| 17 | Nobody who has not lived in a dungeon could understand how absolute the silence down here is . |
| 18 | ‘ Lee , nobody who has n't known you for at least a hundred years is going to appreciate oblique and esoteric … ’ |
| 19 | Says nobody who has n't experienced it can understand it . |
| 20 | Oh I 'm going to ask somebody who has n't got their hand up . |
| 21 | and if they can get somebody who has n't got any ties then they do that |
| 22 | I 'm looking for somebody who has n't had their hand up this lesson , Jennifer ? |
| 23 | No it 's got to be somebody who has n't had a go , otherwise the system falls down , does n't it . |
| 24 | Rare woods , special inlays , great tone and the knowledge that you 'll be the envy of everyone who has n't got one , and by the end of the year they 'll have missed their chance , too . |
| 25 | She was the only one who had not lit up . |
| 26 | I was the only one who had n't understood . |
| 27 | But I was the only one who had n't taken the blues . |
| 28 | Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet . |
| 29 | ‘ No one who has not lived among them knows how hard their lives are , how wretched their condition , could imagine what they suffer . |
| 30 | Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle . |