Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great bells of the abbey were booming and I idly wondered what would have happened to my life if Jack Hogg and I had not been taken . |
| 2 | The ANC , however , declared that it would not be deterred by a government whichit considered illegitimate and which had not been recognized by the rest of the world . |
| 3 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 4 | ‘ Servants , be obedient to them that are your masters ’ she read in Ephesians 6 — and she had not been obedient . |
| 5 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 6 | The crucial evidence was that there was no indication that the manner of Williams ' driving had been unsuited to the road conditions , and she had not been drinking . |
| 7 | She had dared , and she had not been struck dead for it ; she had exposed herself , and she had not been raped , assaulted , or even insulted . |
| 8 | She had dared , and she had not been struck dead for it ; she had exposed herself , and she had not been raped , assaulted , or even insulted . |
| 9 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 10 | And she had not been blind either . |
| 11 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |
| 12 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 13 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 14 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 15 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 16 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 17 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 18 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 19 | At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen . |
| 20 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 21 | Her therapist had , naturally , put it to her that she had married her first husband just because he resembled her father , but Scarlet had rejected the suggestion quite emphatically : he had been a quiet , timorous boy until he discovered the excitement of chasing women , and he had not been artistic at all . |
| 22 | And he had not been brutal or selfish . |
| 23 | It was normal to tear the shawl first so that its value would not tempt a profane person to violate the tomb ; but the shawl had been a beautiful one and he had not been able to bring himself to do that . |
| 24 | But Mr Foley said afterwards that he had had several discussions over the last few weeks with Mr Clinton and he had not been asked if he wanted such an appointment . |
| 25 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 26 | She had done acid once , at college , and it had not been anything like this evening 's entertainment . |
| 27 | The allegations were serious , and it had not been supposed that the children would be allowed home with no further action . |
| 28 | He had been his own man on the training run at Quantico and it had not been held against him there . |
| 29 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 30 | My bicycle was there , and it had not been damaged at all . |