Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 2 | right , I 'll just nip over and get it , cos I have n't locked up yet maybe I wo n't I have n't got ten P , I 've only got two pennies , just have to make sure back |
| 3 | He was n't exactly nasty to me but I was only sixteen and I had n't done many interviews , and I was nervous . |
| 4 | I had n't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts . |
| 5 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 6 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ Going back to that Monday — I had introduced my secretary to you and , up until the point where he asked if he could drive you back to your hotel , I had n't given any thought as to how you would get back there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , when I auditioned I had n't heard any music with Peter Gabriel . ’ |
| 9 | I had n't heard any shouting so therefore I did n't believe that anybody else was having any problems . |
| 10 | I had n't amended that bit but I 'll amend it and sta and write up proper . |
| 11 | I had n't seen any show yet — all the books seemed to imply I should have had one by now . |
| 12 | We replaced the police barrier to prevent a repetition of Sal 's sudden decision to travel sideways , although I had n't seen another car on the hill either time I 'd been there . |
| 13 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 14 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 15 | I had n't bought any tea and there was an Alan Freeman radio programme on the story of the Kinks that I wanted to listen to . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me , ’ Harry said as they neared the station , ‘ if I had n't found that letter last night and thrown you out , would you have told me all this ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Damn , if only I had n't had that wine and walked home — well , the man 's a fool . |
| 18 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |
| 19 | I had n't had any kind of pain relief — well , there was n't time ! — but the pain , although very intense , was only for a short time , so it was easy for me to bear . |
| 20 | I had n't counted that idea , possibility , you talked about condensing it . |
| 21 | Er well I do n't think I 'd be I do n't think I 'd be going out to play golf if I had n't earned any money . |
| 22 | I was glad I had n't shaved that morning . |
| 23 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 24 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 25 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 26 | I was sorry I had n't brought more water . |
| 27 | I had n't got much time for him and he knew it ! |
| 28 | I had n't got three feet inside the door when there was a soft movement behind , and something hard was pushed into my kidneys . |
| 29 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
| 30 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |