Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [not/n't] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 3 | Our young labourer Kevin , whom I 've not mentioned for a while , gets the strenuous pick and shovel jobs . |
| 4 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 5 | No , I have n't done for a while see I |
| 6 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 7 | I have n't eaten for a week . |
| 8 | I have n't arranged for a secondary . |
| 9 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 10 | It 's the first time I 've actually , well cos I have n't sung for a long time . |
| 11 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 12 | I have n't paid for a ‘ phone call in years . |
| 13 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 14 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 15 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 16 | Now erm getting to those words yourself instead , I 'm sorry , things we have n't done for a week or two lots of word they 'll be lots of them in the exam I 'm telling you . |
| 17 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 19 | Girls at the back of the room , we have n't come for a chat . |
| 20 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 21 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 22 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |