Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daak 's aerobatics had n't shaken it off the shuttle . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over . |
| 3 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 4 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |
| 5 | He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself . |
| 6 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ his lordship said , ‘ you have n't shot me in the kneecaps yet . ’ |
| 8 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 9 | Have n't seen her for a while . |
| 10 | Have n't seen her for a couple of month , have you ? |
| 11 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 12 | I have n't seen her since the opera . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't seen her since the wedding . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 15 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 16 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 17 | We have n't seen them in the village . |
| 18 | Anyway , erm we went to the Ca Polly had n't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there 's a shirt you want for Robert there . |
| 19 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 20 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 21 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |
| 22 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 23 | I have n't seen him for a while actually . |
| 24 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 25 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 26 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 27 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while , Mac , ’ she said , tight-lipped as she dropped the cheese rolls into a brown paper bag . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't seen you at the station recently , ’ said the Station Master . |
| 30 | I have n't seen you in the shop for some time . |