Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 2 | Felicity Sieghart declared herself not dedicated to a career and therefore well qualified to address us . |
| 3 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 4 | That is eight years ago , and the Board would now be doing Chapter III work , both in Essex and Norfolk , had I not made myself damned unpleasant … |
| 5 | Know , if you kill me for my fault , I should Have died had I not made it . |
| 6 | Victor would have fallen too , had I not run round the table , and caught him as he staggered . |
| 7 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 8 | Here was a further cause for retrospective anxiety which , had I not re-examined Fraser McLuskey 's Parachute Padre , might have haunted me . |
| 9 | Why had I not felt this when she was there ? |
| 10 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 11 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 12 | I doubt whether I should ever have experienced such wealth and depth of love , from and for so many , had I not followed … my vocation . ’ |
| 13 | On that particular occasion , had I not recognized Miss Kenton 's footsteps on the boards as she came towards me , I would have been able to identify her only from her outline . |
| 14 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 15 | Had I not woken up to get a glass of milk we would not have known about the fire and would have been trapped upstairs . ’ |
| 16 | Had I not worked closely with him I would have seen little of this . |
| 17 | And had I not wiped the floor with the little squirt , conversationally speaking ? |
| 18 | Why had I not told her this and that ? |
| 19 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 20 | ‘ And to think I might have sailed up it had I not chosen to be independent . |
| 21 | I told myself that not only had I not had a choice , but that in fact I had n't really needed to make one . |
| 22 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 23 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 24 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |
| 25 | Why had I not thought of this before ? |
| 26 | What would have happened had I not arrived at the door at precisely that juncture , I can not imagine . |
| 27 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 28 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 29 | How an argument began , then a fight , how Leonard would have been killed had she not hit Otto over the head . |
| 30 | Had she not heard Sarah 's cry of outrage the moment before she opened the carriage door and caught John in that position ? |