Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As for a job , Wilson says : ‘ I have n't given it any thought .
2 The word disturbed Maria for a while afterwards , although Cavell probably had n't given it any real thought , since she appeared so untroubled , her manner calmly confident and still strictly professional .
3 Now I have n't finished , but I mean I , it really is at the top of my mind , yo , you know it has n't I have n't given it top priority .
4 You have n't heard it all .
5 and you know they had n't heard it all and
6 Where else has he accumulated his vast wealth — and we have n't added it all up yet , not by any means . ’
7 Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife .
8 If surprise had n't made it impossible for Isabel to prevaricate , her quick blush would certainly have betrayed her .
9 We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’
10 It seems likely that , if Prince Charles had n't made it famous through his children 's book The Old Man of Lochnagar , nobody might have known that , by 1984 , only 13 trout survived in this highly acidified loch .
11 and this chappie had a double hip replacement operation , it 's been on the television here and er , he said they started off dancing with Sammy Davis , you know , er what 's it called , Tip Tap Toe or something like that , they , they act Sammy Davis and his , and his parents and then these two chaps I , I mean they had n't made it big time
12 ‘ Perhaps I have n't made it clear which are my ideas and which are Terence 's .
13 And if you have n't made it clear what you meant erm either the court will have to decide or somebody else will decide that it 's different to what you intended .
14 Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open .
15 But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’
16 As they walked inside , arm in arm , she said huskily , ‘ Darling , what would you have done if I had n't said it first ? ’
17 She had n't noticed it last night .
18 an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts .
19 But then I found that they had n't done it that way .
20 But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way .
21 I hope she had n't done it that Saturday when we all were outside and we watching
22 The other thing is I mean , erm , the , the Trone did it a couple of years ago , they have n't done it this year they
23 So in progressing through there , and I 'm sorry we have n't done it this way , we end up in terms of the County Council figure of nine seven hundred for Greater York , possible er provision from , collectively from the districts of about fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred short .
24 I mean it has n't done it any good all the in Amy 's bedroom where where it had to put the copydex it 's all got brownish and , has n't it ? you can see where the .
25 I , I noticed too , that he has n't got it straight like over the
26 She said : ‘ One of my slogans was , ‘ If the Tories have n't got it right in 13 years , then they never will . ’
27 They probably have n't got it right — their rates are all different — so we are holding back .
28 ‘ A fast car will take me back for a drink with the cast afterwards , but if they have n't got it right yet , they never will . ’
29 ‘ It is very important that players do go and play for their country , but we have n't got it right here , ’ said Francis .
30 ‘ He has n't got it right then , ’ snapped Lydia .
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