Example sentences of "have n't [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
2 | Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer . |
3 | He has n't explored the potential relationship of maths with design , some science and language components . |
4 | Seat UK 's strategic move away from advertising its cars as cheap and cheerful , and towards the ‘ quality driven consumer ’ , has n't prevented the Spanish manufacturer from continuing to launch ultra-cheap models on to the market . |
5 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
6 | ‘ It has n't reached the reserve price . ’ |
7 | He clearly has n't achieved the right balance between ‘ mental skills ’ and exploratory delivery of those skills into meaningful situations . |
8 | Is it worth training somebody who has never , has n't got the mental capacity to progress to another job or perhaps performing ? |
9 | Because if it 's written by the bourgeoisie , it has n't got the authentic whiff — what ? |
10 | So , although your two-year-old can sweep off her hat or pull down her trousers , she has n't got the physical coordination needed to put a sock on the right way , with the heel round the back of her foot . |
11 | ‘ Has n't got the full shilling , ’ she clucked soothingly . |
12 | He has n't got the underground man 's bodiless analytic clarity . |
13 | now who has n't got the human machine working ? |
14 | Diana , a West African gorilla , has n't forgotten the foster dad who hand-reared her from birth . |
15 | ‘ This has n't changed the European position . |
16 | The upgrade has n't changed the relative positioning of the two products at all , merely expanded the range of documents for which users might consider PageMaker suitable . |
17 | " He has n't mentioned the distended state of the pulmonary arteries and the right cavities of the heart . |
18 | But it has n't brought the promised boom for towns along the route . |
19 | He had n't registered the two-tone scream of the car-alarm ; in much the same way , a countryman might be deaf to the cry of a rooster . |
20 | Assuming she had n't made the whole thing up . |
21 | Cleo wished now that she had n't visited the mad woman . |
22 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
23 | It had n't assumed the full importance it later would in my life , though I already liked the place and felt at home in its coolness and dark . |
24 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
25 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
26 | ‘ I wish I had n't seen the bloody flash , ’ he muttered under his breath . |
27 | We had n't seen the National Guard yet . |
28 | And then slowly he smiled , and the smile lit the dark blue eyes and transformed the face , and she knew it was all right ; she had n't done the wrong thing after all . |
29 | Nice rotted muck is alright , not too bad , but erm of course we had n't done the main thing had we , thrashing ! |
30 | We had n't heard the front door opening and Cal 's father coming in . |