Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I haven I have n't developed a new word at number six , that is overall presents her argument in a confident and persuasive manner . |
| 2 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 3 | There are proposals to link Valmorel 's skiing area to the Three Valleys , although we were n't given a definite timescale . |
| 4 | I have n't heard a single thing of him ! |
| 5 | Whilst she had n't completed a weekly measurement chart she had kept a personal record of her waist and hip measurement . |
| 6 | Whatever reaction Doyle had expected , he had n't expected a sneering laugh . |
| 7 | In three months he has n't committed a single offence . |
| 8 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 9 | She hoped she had n't caught an unmentionable disease from her visit to the news-theatre . |
| 10 | It had n't looked an easy distance before , but now it looked impossible . |
| 11 | Phil has n't addressed a civil word to us in weeks . |
| 12 | I just wish he had n't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production . |
| 13 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 14 | Well they 'd never , they had n't made a long player Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now are n't they ? |
| 15 | I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe . |
| 16 | and which newspapers you think , even if you have n't made a final decision |
| 17 | I still had n't made a clean take-off . |
| 18 | He had n't made a deliberate decision to keep her out of his private and professional life . |
| 19 | Erm and people will take on board different methods of being probed , some will respond to audio probes , some will re respond to some visual stimulation er conceptualize er ideas you know the ones we looked at last week like the old PEGGY symbols and erm the cheque book , PHI and life assurance , the ten percent rule and there is one another which we can look at , another mnemonic called er erm some of you may have come across it before , others may not and is hey so Mr Prospect if you had n't made an adequate retirement plan , what financial problems do you think you or family could have ? |
| 20 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't said a single word about joining you in Italy . ’ |
| 22 | I have n't seen a perfect day like that over in Blackpool yet . |
| 23 | have n't seen a great deal of him recently . |
| 24 | And although sales of the machines may be flat , ‘ at least we have n't seen a major fall like IBM ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Have n't seen a one-man band since way back . |
| 26 | I have n't seen a single poster for this bloody show . |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't seen a single book in the house , not one . ’ |
| 28 | I mean we have n't seen an awful lot of er Julian Jochim yet but th the two occasions when the ball 's been fed into him he 's shown a brilliant ability to turn with the ball and get at the defenders . |
| 29 | We have n't seen an enormous amount of Ecstasy , but we are aware that it 's being used in the region . ’ |
| 30 | It 's not that OSF technology is n't good , they argue , its simply that OSF , and its members , have n't done a good marketing job . |