Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband 's sent for the doctor but he has n't arrived yet to confirm it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's someone who 's lost his job , ’ says Rose , ‘ and he has n't got anywhere to live . ’ |
| 3 | He 's got something malignant , cancer , and he has n't got long to live anyway . ’ |
| 4 | An expert on altitude sickness says he has n't got long to live . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Newman has n't come here to upset you , ’ she said gently . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had n't managed even to soften him , let alone subjugate him , and that rankled unbearably . |
| 8 | ‘ It had n't got long to go , this ox , ’ she commented . |
| 9 | That 's when I started trying to get you back ; I knew I had n't got long to do it . ’ |
| 10 | So we just stayed anywhere and if you had n't got anywhere to go |
| 11 | For a moment she regretted that she had n't tried harder to dissuade Rob from his plan . |
| 12 | It had n't taken long to make a fool of herself . |
| 13 | It had n't taken long to determine that the plane had been sabotaged . |
| 14 | One thing was clear , though , from that stealthiness of Adam 's : he had n't come here to ask Ben Hesketh for the cup . |
| 15 | He had n't come here to bring her a birthday present ! |
| 16 | He looked shifty , and the painter had n't known enough to disguise the bulge under his jacket which made his chain of office lie uneven . |
| 17 | But pleasant as much of the Algarve still is — with endless beaches , sandy little coves and whitewashed towns — things have n't gone entirely to plan . |
| 18 | Cos I have n't got nowhere to put it . |
| 19 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 20 | But I have n't got anywhere to go to . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm surprised the Barnet fans have n't got together to try to get the club taken over and I 'm also surprised that Barry Fry is still there . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But ’ , I said , ‘ I have n't come here to talk about my exam prospects ! ’ |
| 23 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |
| 24 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
| 25 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |