Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Your companion might not have made it at all . ’
2 ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’
3 The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days .
4 This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all .
5 ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world .
6 In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem .
7 Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all .
8 I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions .
9 On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ .
10 The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all .
11 Orwell would not have put it like that .
12 While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career .
13 My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’
14 This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case .
15 I would n't have written one like that when I was at school .
16 ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’
17 ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly .
18 I would n't have seen you for another hour .
19 She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan .
20 I would n't have lent myself to any schemes like that .
21 He would n't have done it for most people .
22 No , would n't have changed anything at that time .
23 If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now .
24 I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires .
25 Oh no he would n't have had me in any case .
26 ‘ You should n't have taken her like that . ’
27 I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’
28 This fact was discovered by Gregor Mendel in the last century , although he would n't have put it like that .
29 You would n't have expected it at all .
30 ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’
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