Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 2 | If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 4 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 5 | ‘ My son has n't called me an asshole yet , ’ said Jim . |
| 6 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 7 | And then I , I was at Doctor 's but he er he has n't sent me a letter . |
| 8 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 9 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 10 | Very well I do n't have n't worn it a lot in Stowmarket I |
| 11 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 12 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 13 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 14 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 15 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 16 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 17 | She had not imagined him a sportsman . |
| 18 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 19 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 20 | Now I 've not given you a lot of chance to speak because you said you do n't want to go and to , but I want |
| 21 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 22 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 23 | Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought . |
| 24 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 25 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 26 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 27 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
| 28 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 29 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 30 | Had n't given her a key , but Lucy supposed that there were limits . |