Example sentences of "[not/n't] have come [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
2 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
3 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
4 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
5 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
6 | I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’ |
7 | I would n't have come near the church if I 'd realised — ’ |