Example sentences of "[vb past] not [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Not infection in a literal sense of catching whatever killed Not her — after all , she may have died perfectly peacefully from old age — but the fear of infection of death itself , an unpleasant reminder of our own mortality .
2 I was that knacked not her , bright as a button , she still did n't sleep that bloody night , she 's a swine , Linda was n't very old when Pam was born was she ?
3 We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture .
4 If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment .
5 They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection .
6 My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children .
7 Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity .
8 Culture thus transcends the lives of its living exponents in any one generation : if it did not it could not survive .
9 But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer .
10 You did not it was too bloody hot .
11 And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly .
12 Why did not I think of it before ?
13 Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’
14 ‘ Why did not you say so then ! ’
15 It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed .
16 Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’
17 With Thursday only a day or so hence , why did not he inform us there and then that he would be unable to convey our message to the queen our mother ?
18 Why did n't yous come out ?
19 Well I did n't him coming , and Ian saw me coming .
20 Did n't ye ask her ? ’
21 Did n't 'e tell ye he was off ? . ’
22 When I said why did n't 'e go an' get it back 'isself , 'e said do n't ask questions .
23 Did n't 'e ever find out ? ’ the carman asked .
24 An ’ 'e did , did n't 'e , Joe ? ’
25 And it did n't hers .
26 But I mean she did n't hers was n't fast tan one .
27 Did n't we share a bath when we were little , ride ponies together when we were bigger ?
28 Well we learned all too well , did n't we ?
29 We called on you earlier tonight , did n't we ?
30 Did n't we call earlier and you told us she was your girlfriend ?
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