Example sentences of "[pron] have not [adv] begin [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I have n't even begun to change yet . ’ |
| 2 | Competition is so great between the two giants of the industry ( and I have n't even begun to think about Unix and the Mac operating system , never mind the combined IBM/Apple OS ) that , behind the hype ( of which I predict there will be much ) there will be a rock solid operating system developed , and it will be just what the doctor ordered . |
| 3 | Jones , challenged early on in the action to surrender , made the subsequently famous reply : ‘ I have not yet begun to fight ! ’ , refusing to lower his equally famous flag , made for the Ranger by the admiring young women of Portsmouth , New Hampshire , who had cut the ‘ stripes ’ from their silk dresses and the ‘ stars ’ from the wedding gown of a naval wife . |
| 4 | She had n't even begun to sort things out when Louise retired a month later . |
| 5 | ‘ You have n't even begun to discover how much I 'll dare , Aurora . |
| 6 | ‘ You have n't even begun to try to understand … you have n't a notion what it was like , all the cars and the blood and the glass and the boy with the blanket over him , and a girl breaking her ribs , and all the hanging around and waiting … it was … it was … just awful . ’ |
| 7 | As Morley and ZTT hint , we have n't even begun to kick around this thing called rock . |
| 8 | There is a black box marked process and we have n't even begun to open it . |
| 9 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 10 | They have n't even begun to live and they 're dying . |
| 11 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |