Example sentences of "[verb] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When it has n't even started — this phoney war . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ You look quite tired , and term has n't even started . |
| 33 | ‘ He has n't even tried to find out how I am , has he ? ’ |
| 34 | Taylor has n't even tried to do that . |
| 35 | Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material . |
| 36 | He has n't even changed his handwriting . |
| 37 | In fact , it continued , he has n't even mentioned what will happen after you catch the next plane back to Heathrow . |
| 38 | She has n't even put seams on them . |
| 39 | ‘ The problem is that the Government has n't properly thought through its proposals for contaminated land , ’ says Mr Humber . |
| 40 | He has n't properly spoken to me since our refusal to carry drugs . |
| 41 | If he has n't already killed somebody , then it 's only a matter of time . |
| 42 | We 'll get you on it yet if Kate has n't already wrecked it . |
| 43 | I 'm amazed someone has n't already lynched the kids we think responsible . ’ |
| 44 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 45 | Tom Shone , writing in the Sunday Times , was also struck far from dumb by Mr Meades ' novel : ‘ This novel bristles , like a Swiss army knife , with an array of pre-emptive critical barbs , with the result that there 's no abuse you can hurl at it which it has n't already hurled at itself . |
| 46 | We would n't be surprised if David Mellor at the newly created British Ministry for the arts , tourism , heritage , media and sport ( see this page ) has n't already booked his ticket . |
| 47 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 48 | So if anybody you know did that and has n't yet repaid them I would strongly advise you to do that . |
| 49 | Once or twice my mum has even gone into a light trance , and , though she has n't yet contacted anyone interesting , we have great hopes of her . |
| 50 | Men will say ‘ I love you ’ to get women into bed with them ; women will say ‘ I love you ’ to get men into marriage with them ; both will say ‘ I love you ’ to keep fear at bay , to convince themselves of the deed by the word , to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived , to deceive themselves that it has n't yet gone away . |
| 51 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |
| 52 | It 's true that recycling of plastics has n't yet reached the scale of paper or glass , but the label of environmental enemy is undeserved . |
| 53 | That sort of application has n't yet reached the small shops where really the proprietor of the shop himself is only too well aware of when the baked beans is running out . |
| 54 | The government has n't yet decided what advice to issue when air quality drops off . |
| 55 | NT wo n't support SMP until version 2 , still some 18 months out in any case , and Microsoft has n't yet decided what it 'll do for that stuff yet . |
| 56 | And Severn Trent has n't yet decided which way to go . |
| 57 | DEC has n't yet said which Alpha systems will run Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system it has picked up , but the workstation range looks to have the most likely candidates . |
| 58 | DEC has n't yet said which Alpha systems will run the Windows NT operating system it has picked up , but the workstation range looks to be the most likely candidate . |
| 59 | Bill stepped into this personalised galaxy aged 13 and has n't yet emerged . |
| 60 | The company has set up focus groups to talk to large US PC users , but has n't yet hit on a magic formula that will allow it to get at users directly and in a cost effective way . |