Example sentences of "they have n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Do you er did but they had n't built a ship in Porthmadog since nineteen thirteen .
2 They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about .
3 They reveal that they had n't planned another child .
4 They had n't followed her in .
5 Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire .
6 Perhaps they had n't understood .
7 After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted .
8 If only they had n't taxed their tendons so fiercely …
9 No , they had n't stayed long — a little amused glance at Narouz here .
10 Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything .
11 She had a bad cargo see , they had n't er some stuff and they had n't stored her properly and she turned over and they all got drowned .
12 Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be
13 Perhaps they had n't wanted her to see .
14 He did n't add that when he had first telephoned them they had n't wanted to know .
15 They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so .
16 They had n't wanted to believe that Kosi , Lars , Rachel and the rest were dead .
17 With another sigh , and feeling extremely awkward because she 'd obviously been foisted on them when they had n't wanted her to be foisted , she decided not to unpack , just take out the things she would need for the night .
18 If they had n't rushed into breeding so early in their marriage , maybe Charles and Diana could have avoided many of their problems .
19 They had n't killed him , at least not yet .
20 So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did .
21 Naturally enough , they had n't played it since the boy had entered adolescence .
22 The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed !
23 So could Mary ; they had n't noticed either of us .
24 They seemed unaffected however , and threw their heads back , howling with unnatural laughter as they twisted their bodies in ever more contorted movements , some of them even brushing into one or other of the fires and continuing their dance as if they had n't noticed .
25 Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct .
26 But they had n't done any harm .
27 Because they had n't done any management , Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant-finding fee and therefore owed her £2,400 ( 3 months ' rent plus the deposit ) .
28 And then that one fell through because they had n't done the repairs on , so they gen us this flat .
29 But then I found that they had n't done it that way .
30 They would ask Tolby that , if they had n't done so already .
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