Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 2 | Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them . |
| 3 | . I 'm surprised yours has n't dented yet . |
| 4 | If yours has n't reached you by the end of July , or you live outside the London area but fancy coming up for the occasion , please phone Pensions Department on freefone 0800 262 072 . |
| 5 | It was my heart that broke when he went , yet I never had him searched for ; I durs n't think what 'd come , if he saw the lad now . |
| 6 | And I would be very surprised if that ‘ lovely woman ’ of yours does n't know a little more than she 's prepared to admit — even to you ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yours does n't sound exactly typical … ’ |
| 8 | That fancy wife of yours does n't like you touching her , does she ? |
| 9 | ‘ I find it immensely satisfying to witness proof that behaviour such as yours does n't occur without penalty of some sort . |
| 10 | Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all . |
| 11 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 12 | I want you and I believe you owe me , but wanting you has n't unbalanced me to the extent you seem to believe . |
| 13 | ‘ And on present evidence a back-door man like you has n't got it up there . |
| 14 | You has n't started it mum ! |
| 15 | Her Christmas show proved she has not lost her touch and it 's time she was fully acknowledged as the comic genius she is . |
| 16 | She says she has not lost a single client and has already won several new audit clients . |
| 17 | Graf , the French and Wimbledon champion , will be a firm favourite to collect her third U.S. Open crown as she has not lost to Sukova in 19 matches since losing in their first meeting as a 14-year-old in 1983 . |
| 18 | Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch . |
| 19 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 20 | She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since . |
| 21 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 22 | She has not seen her children for two years . |
| 23 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 24 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 25 | Cumani has a chance of taking the big sprint on the Knavesmire with Khaydara , but she has not run since June and will be hard pressed to hold Runun ( 3.45 ) , who was the convincing winner of a valuable Ascot handicap on his last outing . |
| 26 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 27 | Dame Agatha will be leaving , if she has not gone already . |
| 28 | She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further . |
| 29 | ‘ She has not said so . ’ |
| 30 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |