Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 2 | But you do not have to confine yourself to just one murder . |
| 3 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 4 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 5 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 6 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 8 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 9 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 10 | A special feature is the principle of delayed and informed choice by which students gain a broad foundation in the study of the humanities and do not have to commit themselves to their degree programme until the end of the first year . |
| 11 | Again , it is not quite like joining a club , because you simply attend , you do not have to commit yourself to anything more than that . |
| 12 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 13 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 14 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 15 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 16 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 17 | There 's nothing sinister in her not having mentioned it to you . |
| 18 | I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’ |
| 19 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 20 | You — do n't have to take me to Monpazier . ’ |
| 21 | You do n't have to take me to dinner ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It would n't have killed him to be here for once . ’ |
| 23 | We would n't have wanted him to be on anyone else 's . ’ |
| 24 | I would n't have wanted him to . |
| 25 | His hat remained in the hall ; his photograph in the silver-plated frame , polished twice a week , presided over the sitting room ; his memory was invoked , especially during Peter 's teens , in sentences that began with the ominous words , ‘ I know for a fact that your father would n't have wanted you to … . ’ |
| 26 | She would n't have wanted you to be miserable . ’ |
| 27 | As to that other matter — ’ he stood up and came round his desk ‘ — I do n't have to ask you to be discreet , do I ? |
| 28 | ‘ Of course we do n't have to invite them to dinner . |
| 29 | She could n't have said nothing to our if she did I should have thought well alright our nan said I must bloody go up but she did n't come up Sunday . |
| 30 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |