Example sentences of "have not [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These blades are horribly sharp , so sharp in fact that one form has not needed sharpening in eight years and has cut around 200,000 straps ! |
| 2 | His hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Central ( Mr. Darling ) has not attempted to get into this murky area . |
| 3 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 4 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 5 | The urban bias of radio was thus increased : it was virtually impossible for people who had not become urbanized to some extent to be appointed as full-time radio broadcasters . |
| 6 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 7 | This was a declaration of sorts , however lightly made , and one which Dr Neil had not thought to make to any woman in any form , and before Sally-Anne could take in its full meaning he rapidly continued , ‘ And now let us stop providing entertainment for the passers-by . |
| 8 | I suppose that , as I myself had not started to smoke at that period of time , it was worse for me , just like garlic eaters . |
| 9 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 10 | He had not expected to pay for any drinks tonight . |
| 11 | When Anne had tentatively broached the subject of where Kathleen was to go when she left hospital , she said , ‘ Doctor Boland says I 've not got to worry about that . |
| 12 | I had n't planned to talk about this today . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't planned to work at all . ’ |
| 14 | After all , she told herself in extenuation , this was the first thing she had ever done to please herself … but , said a small voice — ‘ but ’ is surely the most miserable little word in the English language — but … they had n't asked to come into this vale of tears … . |
| 15 | She had n't wanted to go at all . |
| 16 | She 'd known he 'd think that and that was one of the reasons why she had n't wanted to get into this conversation in the first place . |
| 17 | This was another reason she had n't wanted to get into this conversation . |
| 18 | He had n't wanted to try for many months after his return and rarely smiled or laughed . |
| 19 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 20 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 21 | Funny , thought Brenda , that she had n't bothered to put on clean underclothes . |
| 22 | He could see that his life was n't at issue ; she had n't come to hear about that . |
| 23 | In five years of feeding white worm I have not lost fry to any white worm related causes . |
| 24 | The pianist was Roger Bluff , who seemed able to draw a singing tone from the Festival piano that I have not heard matched for some time . |
| 25 | Perhaps one detail I have not mentioned led to this unexpected response in me . |
| 26 | But I have n't seen Miss about all these sort of things . |
| 27 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 28 | I have n't got rid of this one er bloody yet . |
| 29 | You have n't got to think of this in terms of finding the answer for all time , because the answer changes all the time , but what you have is a continued process of approximate answers , but it is n't chaos . |
| 30 | Then you need a pattern — exactly what Wales have n't seemed to have in recent years . |