Example sentences of "not have [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 2 | If he had realized this , he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a " Not-hawk " - that is , anything from a wren to a pheasant — and continued on his way up the slope . |
| 3 | The audience could not have told it apart from Christmas or the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , I could n't have explained it clearly to the dog . |
| 5 | you do n't have to hold it close to you |
| 6 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 7 | ‘ They would n't have left it behind in such a contemptuous fashion , ’ said Golding . |
| 8 | Damn , she could n't have left it behind in Palma . |