Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted .
2 You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it ,
3 If yours has n't already been converted , it 's very simple to get it done .
4 My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum .
5 I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’
6 I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's .
7 I saw I have n't even got .
8 But I had n't on with the horses .
9 ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him .
10 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
11 I had n't even begun .
12 I had n't even flirted properly .
13 I had n't even had a chance to wash it !
14 I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever .
15 I had n't even looked at her properly .
16 I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’
17 I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today .
18 This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine .
19 Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it !
20 I was in a hurry , I had n't even put a headset or a mask on .
21 My first deadline was the end of last March , and I had n't even started thinking about it by then .
22 I also realised that forest photography was fraught with problems I had n't even considered , and was not at all well-equipped to deal with .
23 I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us .
24 I remembered I 'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house , and thought how awful that I had n't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run .
25 I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there .
26 To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often .
27 ‘ She was a friend of a friend — I had n't even known she was coming , but one look and I was arrogant enough to decide I was going to make her mine .
28 I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help .
29 I had n't even grown hair on mine .
30 I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime .
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