Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [adv] [verb] " 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 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 .
4 I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’
5 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 .
6 I saw I have n't even got .
7 ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him .
8 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 .
9 I had n't even begun .
10 He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on .
11 Well I had n't even done games once so you know okay .
12 I had n't even grown hair on mine .
13 I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I had n't even flirted properly .
18 Ferreira said : ‘ It happened so quickly , by the end of the first set I felt I had n't even played one game .
19 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 .
20 Yeah and Uncle Frank was saying those bushes were nice , I had n't even noticed them .
21 This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine .
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 had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime .
24 I had n't even had a chance to wash it !
25 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 !
26 My first deadline was the end of last March , and I had n't even started thinking about it by then .
27 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 .
28 I had n't even looked at her properly .
29 I had n't even looked at who it was by .
30 ‘ 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 .
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