Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a question he could not have answered in words . |
| 2 | Charles will still sit on the throne and Diana , with whom he will not have lived for years , will be crowned beside him . |
| 3 | We could not have lived without books . |
| 4 | He may , like his father , have had a wetnurse ( though his father as one of twins was atypical ) , and if so he may not have remained with Judith when , for instance , she travelled to Rouen to meet her husband in November 824 . |
| 5 | Councillor Buchanan , therefore , is confused in imagining that the board is a committee of the council , on which he bases his argument that I should not have remained in office . |
| 6 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 7 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 8 | In his footnote , John Stuart Mill objects that economising in the use of names is not the sole purpose of classification : ‘ We could not have dispensed with names to mark the points in which different individuals resemble one another : and these are class-names . ’ |
| 9 | One does not have to resort to occultism to find dark forces . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that an animal of the size of Brachiosaurus could not have breathed under water because of the pressure on the lungs . |
| 11 | The user does not have to wait for interpretation , but can write ahead and subsequently correct errors . |
| 12 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 13 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 14 | Under this system students are also able to graduate as soon as they have met the requirements of an award and do not have to wait until July each year . |
| 15 | This would not have served for vaults , and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances . |
| 16 | She climbed into the front seat , grateful that she did not have to sit beside Doreen , who would be sure to take the opportunity of snuggling up to Silas . |
| 17 | ‘ You would not have asked for Lina unless you liked the old lady . ’ |
| 18 | There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely . |
| 19 | Had it been essential to inject , many ‘ new ’ users stated that they would probably not have experimented with heroin in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ You did not have to go into partnership with the fool . ’ |
| 21 | Just then Albert put his head round the door and I could see that Dad was relieved that he did not have to go into explanations . |
| 22 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 23 | The existence of the network ensures that searchers do not have to go to London to obtain this information . |
| 24 | I woke up and grinned , remembering that it was the half term holiday and I did not have to go to school . |
| 25 | I would n't get dressed until the last minute because I thought I would be late and therefore would not have to go to school . |
| 26 | ‘ We do not have to go to Africa . ’ |
| 27 | It is just that community workers get paid and do not have to go to gaol ( Alex Robson of the 1930s NUWM in North Shields commenting on the work of CDP in the mid-1970s ) . |
| 28 | Soon we will not have to go to ballet or piano or junior aerobics . |
| 29 | If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens . |
| 30 | A sick Gooch should not have played in Calcutta with a debilitating virus which developed into a chest infection . |