Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abraham 's previous experience of God would certainly not have led him to suppose child-sacrifice would please him . |
| 2 | He said it warmly and gently , and at this Lydia was surprised since she had thought her remarks somewhat offensive and would not have made them had she still been in love with Finn and desirous of his good opinion . |
| 3 | I would not have made him motm against Oldham , I thought the Oldham defenders Jobson and Redmond were the best players on the park . |
| 4 | His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 6 | ‘ I could not have said it better myself , ’ he said coldly . |
| 7 | Luke taunted softly , coming right up to the desk behind which she stood , having risen instinctively when Penny had told her he was here — a betrayal , she knew , but she could not have faced him sitting down . |
| 8 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 9 | Would not have done you have harm . |
| 10 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 11 | Though she had foreseen the need for such a private moment Louisa would certainly not have chosen it to occur so quickly . |
| 12 | He would not have bought it had he been by himself but Maidstone assured him it was the right choice — ‘ Absolutely first rate , dear fellow . ’ |
| 13 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 14 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 15 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 16 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 17 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 18 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
| 19 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
| 20 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 21 | ‘ Your leg — and the Teller 's weakness — would not have let you stay with it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He may not have expected them to do that , ’ objected Noble reasonably . |
| 23 | I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this . |
| 24 | I could not have put it better myself , so perhaps I should not try . |
| 25 | I could not have put it better myself . |
| 26 | I could not have put it better myself . |
| 27 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 28 | However , he was persuaded to stay in England when he considered that his poor state of health probably would not have allowed him to survive the hardship of a long sea voyage in those days . |
| 29 | I should not have allowed you to see him ! ’ |
| 30 | On the surface he 'd helped her to adjust , and a woman less sensitive and intelligent would n't have accepted him correcting her speech and table manners . |