Example sentences of "[verb] n't [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's hardly a wildlife film-maker who has n't become intimately acquainted with at least one species of tick , and as ticks prefer the softer , warmer parts of the body , the acquaintance is sometimes very intimate indeed . |
| 2 | He has n't phoned yet has he ? |
| 3 | My husband 's sent for the doctor but he has n't arrived yet to confirm it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's someone who 's lost his job , ’ says Rose , ‘ and he has n't got anywhere to live . ’ |
| 5 | He 's got something malignant , cancer , and he has n't got long to live anyway . ’ |
| 6 | An expert on altitude sickness says he has n't got long to live . |
| 7 | A pity Nigel has n't got long curling eyelashes . |
| 8 | Oh yeah I got all your bits then , he has n't had hardly had anything to drink again today he does n't seem to drink , he eats all his food , oh he ate that pudding no problem |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Newman has n't come here to upset you , ’ she said gently . |
| 10 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 11 | Employees who did n't bother even to acknowledge letters , CVs and applications , were particularly wounding . |
| 12 | She did rub one melanoma causing it to weep but we did n't panic just kept it very clean and it healed perfectly . |
| 13 | Well that did n't last long did it ah ? |
| 14 | Well that did n't last long did it ? |
| 15 | that did n't last long did it ? |
| 16 | At least they did n't stand there looking stupid : at least they had the decency to look shocked and horrified . |
| 17 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 18 | Despite Norman Lamont 's pre-election Budget most analysts believe the Chancellor did n't do enough to secure a victory . |
| 19 | But Forest did n't do much threatening either , largely because their brilliant young midfielder , Roy Keane , is being played at centre-back . |
| 20 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 21 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 22 | And I , when I read it , I had n't looked at this , but I never thought it was really , I did n't sit there going |
| 23 | I knew you might work it out but I reasoned that if I did n't rush forward to explain all , you might catch the culprit first and never have to trouble me . ’ |
| 24 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 25 | Later , there had been the scene she did n't want now to remember : |
| 26 | I did n't want bloody burnt sprouts ! |
| 27 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't feel very loved . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't mean completely wreck the place ! |
| 30 | Our did n't stay long did he ? |