Example sentences of "have not [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 2 | Thus to bar from the courts data that have not appeared in a peer reviewed journal could be foolhardy . |
| 3 | I have not toyed with a parachute chord |
| 4 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 5 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 6 | ‘ The Guilds have not put on a Mystery here these five years or more ! ’ |
| 7 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 8 | No , I have not switched to a lecture on rally driving , your helicopter is moving forwards and you want to stop it . |
| 9 | And the latter do better — and are worth more in the telecoms market place — than ‘ ingenieurs maison ’ , who have not graduated from an engineering or telecoms school , have difficulty in making the all important transition from ‘ technicien ’ to ‘ cadre ’ status , and tend to form the most militantly unionized ‘ lumpenproletariat ’ of say , the DGT or Alcatel . |
| 10 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 11 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 12 | Easiest to cut are the big projects which have not got beyond an existence on paper . |
| 13 | ‘ When you have finished as a taxpayer , ’ Mrs Thatcher asserted , ‘ You have not finished as a citizen . ’ |
| 14 | I have n't arranged for a secondary . |
| 15 | We have n't decided on a name for the band yet , though ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been planning a family for a while but I would n't be surprised if the baby 's born and we have n't decided on a name , ’ she says . |
| 17 | If I could also ask those of you who have n't decided on a confirmation name , I think really by the time we meet again you should . |
| 18 | ‘ So you have n't decided on a set number for yourself ? |
| 19 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 20 | If you 're a dinghy sailor and you have n't lived on a cruiser before , do a ‘ Brush-Up ’ course , either in Falmouth ( p46 ) , or on Villa-Flotilla ( p8 ) , to learn about anchors and engines . |
| 21 | I have n't eaten for a week . |
| 22 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 23 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 24 | No , I have n't done for a while see I |
| 25 | Now erm getting to those words yourself instead , I 'm sorry , things we have n't done for a week or two lots of word they 'll be lots of them in the exam I 'm telling you . |
| 26 | Many of the girls have n't played for a while . |
| 27 | ‘ I sure have n't heard of a film starring a plumber before , ’ says Mario . |
| 28 | ‘ There are always disagreements between committee members , Chief Superintendent , but I have n't heard of a club murder this century . |
| 29 | No cos if I have n't heard in a fortnight you know you 're not getting any in . |
| 30 | He once told NME , ‘ I 've smoked so much pot , I 'm surprised I have n't turned into a bush ’ . |