Example sentences of "have not [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function .
2 He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him .
3 The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box .
4 It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could .
5 It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering .
6 He had put in an appearance , perforce , at the ceremony at the Tower , to appoint his proctors , but returned to Chester as soon as he decently could , and had not left it again to come to the council at his own manor of Kennington , sending only one of his esquires with a report on the situation — admittedly an admirably full and expert report — to lay before the assembly .
7 I 've not seen them lately have you ?
8 You 've not thrown them away have you ?
9 Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth .
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