Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers .
2 Too often , such provision tended to focus exclusively on slow learners , and took the form of ‘ remedial ’ provision which tended not to remedy and which sometimes created , in the return to the ‘ normal ’ curriculum , extra problems for the child .
3 The edge of the dorsal fin is not tapered and they often exhibit a dark band running along the flank from the eye to the caudal fin .
4 Then Dk ( x r ) is not defined and we conventionally put .
5 He said that these were things that he could not forget and he therefore wanted to try and deal with them .
6 Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere .
7 In this book also are the best illustrations Laboureur ever did for Boulestin , one being of the archetype of the French small-town restaurant , the wide , shuttered window , the tree in a tub on the pavement , the facade which has not changed and which still promises decent and genuine country cooking at modest prices .
8 if it was n't completed and we still bring it in can we write it down or ?
9 Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre .
10 Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on .
11 He wandered off when we were n't looking and we never saw him again .
12 Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood .
13 Anyway , I put it in the paper , phoned in the paper and they said it 'd be at least a week or fortnight before so I did n't like but it never came out in the paper .
14 Yet there was something else — an inner core of hatred in the Shepherd family that he could n't understand and which continually disturbed him .
15 But time did n't permit and we reluctantly headed slightly inland , through fields , along dirt tracks and past more burial chambers , walking parallel to our earlier route back to the car .
16 She dodged sideways but her frozen muscles would n't respond and she half fell , clawing upwards again like an athlete on the starting-block but another shot scorched through the mud in her hair and she slumped to her knees in despair .
17 We did n't sulk and we did n't pout and it never lasted .
18 I went to take Wendy 's laundry round Tuesday night I forget why I was , I do n't know , well I did n't call but I just drove on and got myself a says Jim you 're early tonight , quarter past ten .
19 For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart .
20 I had n't asked but I just knew she was his only offspring , and I 'd lay odds there was n't a Mrs McInnes any more .
21 ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs .
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