Example sentences of "they have not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 've not got prices on them neither |
| 2 | ‘ They 've not found Lord Lucan either , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 4 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 5 | But , as they had n't seen Cara since Christmas , and it could be another five weeks , or more , since they saw her again , in the interests of enjoying this short while with her she held her peace , and prompted , ‘ You said ‘ Guess who 's … ’ . ’ |
| 6 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 7 | People used to consistently park because they had n't got garages . |
| 8 | I did n't say they had n't got lorries . |
| 9 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 10 | They had n't invented electronics when I was Still had one ? |
| 11 | They had n't had gas in their last room . |
| 12 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 13 | What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ? |
| 14 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 15 | They had n't bothered tuppence before when he was following a life of crime . |
| 16 | Cos there were a lot of losses of course o in after the convoys had been introduced for the ocean thing but they had n't introduced convoys for inshore . |
| 17 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 18 | They had not contacted Crystal Springs . |
| 19 | But the reunion almost ended as soon as it started , for after chatting for a time and parting , Betty realised they had not exchanged phone numbers . |
| 20 | They had not exchanged news since Christmas , when Celia had sent the usual hamper and received , in exchange , the customary box of chocolates and a card with robins on , inside which Edna had expressed her best wishes and profuse thanks . |
| 21 | She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered . |
| 22 | Such remarks would not be so noteworthy if they had not sent Julia into a frenzy of concern and inward panic . |
| 23 | He did not accept written excuses , read out in court , by some of the 21 offenders who claimed they had not seen warning signs until it was too late . |
| 24 | Despite low incomes they had not switched priority to the long-term needs of their households . |
| 25 | But whoever these men had been , they had not expected stone and stone had won the day against the metal of their more ferocious weaponry . |
| 26 | But they had not had time to implement then when , on 1 February 1979 , the ayatollah returned to Teheran in triumph like Lenin to the Finland Station . |
| 27 | They had not taken exception to it before , so why start now ? |
| 28 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 29 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 30 | As the law stands the squatters had legal rights to live in their home as long as they had not forced entry . |