Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not heard a single argument — there was not a sentence in the Secretary of State 's speech — to suggest that the upper limit will be reached in the coming year . |
| 2 | We have not heard a single word . |
| 3 | The keen youngsters had not won a single game since the season started in September . |
| 4 | A girl emerged from the dairy with a pan of milk and was instantly surrounded by the stable cats , mewing pleadingly as though they had not caught a single mouse for days . |
| 5 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 6 | In fact I have not met a single teacher who does not want to be their best and do their best for young people , even though what this means in practice is very different for different teachers . |
| 7 | As yet I have not written a single page by daylight . |
| 8 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 9 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 10 | But they have not made a single bid at Britain 's top yearling sale this week . |
| 11 | She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since . |
| 12 | David Burns , who heads a service in Chicago that matches athletes and advertisers , told Associated Press he had not had a single inquiry about Yamaguchi since her Olympic win , watched by one of the biggest television audiences for the Winter Games . |
| 13 | The Down Orange Welfare and Ulster Service Corps ( both rural and small town ) have not had a single member imprisoned for a terrorist offence nor has the rural section of the Orange Volunteers . |
| 14 | I 've written six letters and not had a single reply . |
| 15 | Turner says : ‘ We have not had a single offer for Ken — not yet . |
| 16 | There are still a few thousand of the biggest losers who have not had a single penny increase in income from that day to this . |
| 17 | We now have to vote on the timing of its procedures , even though we have not had a single hour of discussion in Committee . |
| 18 | but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon |
| 19 | On the other hand , the numerous developments and debates of the decade had not persuaded a single country to shift from the position it had originally adopted on the European question in the 1940s . |
| 20 | He had not found a single Tory MP who disagreed with his efforts to ameliorate the introduction of the tax in England and Wales next April . |
| 21 | This use of dots with slurs is so consistent that I have not found a single instance where in this combination the dots were not clearly identifiable as such . |
| 22 | His Department has not allocated a single penny to that programme for 1992-93 . |
| 23 | And , what is more , she had not experienced a single moment of panic during the whole exercise . |
| 24 | Mr. Cleaver also omits to mention any of the many infiltrations , bombardments and acts of terror towards a country which has not known a single day of peace in 44 years . |
| 25 | His father had not spoken a single word to him , just followed him around the house , not a solitary word . |
| 26 | She had stayed willingly in the secluded garden with the soldier , had not voiced a single protest at his boldness . |
| 27 | fjortoft has not scored a single goal in the premiership yet ( he kept them coming at a very steady rate at rapid vienna ( under manager Hans Krankl — one of my favorite strikers — favorite striker of all times has to be Der Bomber , Gerd Muller , who scored something like 60 goals in 50 internationals ! did he in fact score against us in our 2–0 defeat vs Bayern Munich ? ) ) — i guess Fjortoft has problems adjusting to the english play and swindon is not the best of teams anyway . |
| 28 | Back at their inn , they sat quietly reflecting how little Aberdeen had offered them in terms of conversational or intellectual stimulation — or , as Boswell reported Johnson 's remark , ‘ that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin [ the Scottish word for hare ] for us to pursue ’ . |
| 29 | She says she has not lost a single client and has already won several new audit clients . |
| 30 | There has been little methodological writing about them until very recently ; there are major researchers , such as Goffman , with many volumes to their credit , who have not published a single line on their techniques ; and , while quantitative data are conventionally available to other researchers for re-analysis , no such traditions exists in qualitative research ; field-notes , indeed are often jealously guarded . |