Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [vb infin] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't speak a single word to me all the way back here , and she 's in foul form downstairs at the moment . |
| 2 | From 1943 onwards he probably did n't miss a single performance in which I was taking part and he must have seen Us in Traviata every time it was done . |
| 3 | Remember the hype over the last Winter Olympic hopefuls , or the Seoul Games when we did n't land a single gold in track and field . |
| 4 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 5 | They were not at all surprised when they did n't receive a single reply . |
| 6 | They did n't get a single bird between them . ’ |
| 7 | She did n't know a single soul outwith the theatre company in this part of the world . |
| 8 | She did n't need a single second . |
| 9 | Stephen did n't say a single word . |
| 10 | That 's just as well , because judging where the ball 's going takes a bit of practice — I did n't win a single point in my first few games . |
| 11 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 12 | I walked to the nearest telephone box and asked the operator if she could put me through to the refuge — I did n't have a single penny . |
| 13 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 14 | We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house . |
| 15 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |
| 16 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |