Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 2 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 3 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 4 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 5 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 6 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 7 | We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his . |
| 8 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 9 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 10 | So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat . |
| 11 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 13 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |