Example sentences of "[vb -s] n't [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 2 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 3 | First time in a year she has n't waited for Jo so they can do their shopping together . |
| 4 | ‘ He has n't exercised for five years and has no muscle tone left but now he is able to exercise in the gym . |
| 5 | Wolves goal machine , Steve Bull has n't scored for 9 games now . |
| 6 | so much for international success … what about Swindon … he has n't scored for them in the league yet … but would give anything … and everything to get amongst the goals |
| 7 | He has n't trained for a month and wo n't travel with the 18-man squad . |
| 8 | Letting someone who is hungry and overweight , and who has n't eaten for six hours , loose in a supermarket should be a criminal offence ! |
| 9 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
| 10 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 11 | Centre Andy Luke also returns , while Paul Rodgers is preferred at hooker to Mike Fenwick , who has n't played for several weeks . |
| 12 | He 's ready to leave the table , but he 's waiting to greet Doreen , whom he has n't seen for years . ’ |
| 13 | Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time . |
| 14 | His wife Jennifer said : ‘ He is finding he can do things he has n't done for so long . |
| 15 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 16 | Limpar has n't figured for the Gunners since scoring the opening goal in the 2-0 win at Anfield on August 23 . |
| 17 | ‘ He has n't paid for his drinks . |
| 18 | The kind of farcical spectacle pop has n't provided for a while , it had everything from Radio 1 getting in a tizzy about whether to ban it to TOTP carrying drug warnings , from ageing DJs singing along to the chorus to ageing rockers ( Francis Rossi of Status Quo ) crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it . |
| 19 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 20 | It has n't worked for years . ’ |
| 21 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 22 | ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said |
| 23 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 24 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 25 | He always gets like that and then he forgets after like a month or two when he has n't worked for him . |
| 26 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 27 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 28 | Look at this kid : eighteen years old , three in the morning , has n't slept for two nights . |
| 29 | Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’ |
| 30 | Oh no but if you look at the responsibility an E O has n't got for scale three , why are we flogging ourselves to death on scale four ? |