Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie could have participated in battles on historic ground , and perhaps not have lost his life , but come back to me . |
| 2 | This picture also says forcibly some other pieces of information which we might perhaps not have guessed : that Portugal and Haiti are very poor countries , and that Trinidad is a very wealthy country , in relative terms . |
| 3 | If we 'd seen it coming sooner then er we would perhaps not have got started on all the many schemes are actually on site . |
| 4 | The idea was to make the farm buildings look good enough not to have to screen them . |
| 5 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 6 | They are small enough not to have to fly in V-formation to get ‘ lift ’ like the larger geese . |
| 7 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 8 | The church has an excellent Romanesque portal , near the west end , made from some marble-like stone hard enough not to have eroded . |
| 9 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 10 | If the victim in the latter case had known of the facts , he would presumably not have bought the car . |
| 11 | And are there any bits of the course you 'd rather not have done ? |
| 12 | And with Ligulf , the banner he would rather not have seen . |
| 13 | Dagmar was a real pain sometimes , coming out with things you 'd rather not have said . |
| 14 | ‘ Katherine , I have to tell you something I would rather not have to say , ’ Mathilde plunged in and then hesitated . |
| 15 | I 'd rather not have to use one of my people for the sacrifice unless it is absolutely necessary . ’ |
| 16 | Ruth felt her throat go dry and for a moment her body yielded to something she would rather not have recognised — a need for another sort of passion in her life . |
| 17 | Plus , of course , you might have time to get over to her and hit her , knock her out before she could even gather a decent breath , but it 's dangerous , edge-working stuff and you 'd rather not have to think about that . |
| 18 | The 18th at Augusta is the sort of hole the professionals would rather not have to play . |
| 19 | This they would rather not have settled , and yet there was a kind of relief in it . |
| 20 | Do not let the channel of communication with your supervisor close — even if you are behind and would rather not have to face the situation of explaining why . |
| 21 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 22 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 23 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 24 | He felt that if he had all this would somehow not have happened . |
| 25 | There were times , too , when Warner was obliged to involve himself with people he 'd sooner not have known . |
| 26 | For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom . |
| 27 | The weather was still heavy and sultry , the promised storm still not having broken . |
| 28 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 29 | Because of continuing financial difficulties and still not having sold the flat , we have had to leave YWAM for the moment . |
| 30 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |