Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
| 2 | We have n't fallen out with them at all . |
| 3 | There can be few backpackers who have n't gazed dreamily at pictures of Europe 's great mountain ranges and wistfully thought ‘ That 's for me ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 5 | Staring out at the low grey sky , the drizzle that had n't stopped once on the journey up from Wexford , she jammed on her hat . |
| 6 | Threats were levelled that if cards were n't filled in by deadlines , good leads would be taken from dealers . |
| 7 | Quickly look around to make sure that you have n't jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and , if all is well , start running . |
| 8 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 9 | I have n't given up on Dana yet . ’ |
| 10 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 11 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 12 | I have n't heard yet from anybody that regeneration 's properly been taken into account in the calculations within local level or county level . |
| 13 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 14 | but I mean I , like I said , I volunteered to go and help with this , I ai n't heard back from him yet |
| 15 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |
| 16 | By comparison with the immense popularity of contemporary feminist fiction , it seems that feminist art has n't broken out of the tine art ‘ ghetto ’ . |
| 17 | In five weeks only we 'll be on our ‘ summer ’ holiday at Dornie — there will be trouble if it has n't cheered up by then . |
| 18 | were n't buggered up for all the characters . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell met I have n't sat here on this bed like a boy in a schoolroom reciting lists of facts for nothing ! ’ |
| 20 | Lisa wished he had n't sat down beside her . |
| 21 | I had have n't sat down since half past seven |
| 22 | She was not only married but trying to conceive a child by Stephen — though as yet she had n't sat down with him and discussed her worries about her failure to become pregnant . |
| 23 | So he was n't chauffeured about in his native city . |
| 24 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 25 | That 's the reality of homebuilding , and in this book Geoff Jones has n't shied away from recognising that patience and a sense of humour are as essential to the completion of a project as adeptness with bandsaw or metal shears . |
| 26 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 27 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
| 28 | This can happen if the toe bail is n't located properly in the groove at the welt — something which can easily happen when there is snow blowing about and the boot itself is covered in snow . |
| 29 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 30 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |