Example sentences of "have n't [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I say the method has got to recognize things it has n't seen before . |
| 2 | If I , if I get another species next year nesting , that has n't nested before and I know it 's because of the effort of putting in reeds , trees , whatever I 've put in there , we 're , we 're trying to get to nest here , if they nest that 'll be really , er that 'll be a great thing because er they feed on the apple erm I thought somebody said er who said there was a hundred a seventy five here er a week ago and that 'd be great to get them to nest , be really good . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing that has n't happened before , Father , ’ Ellie replied , almost as wearily , but still refusing to look up . |
| 4 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 5 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 6 | Apart from some dark patches on the wall that he had n't noticed before , there was nothing to see . |
| 7 | I suppose it 's always been there , but I had n't noticed before . |
| 8 | Perhaps I just had n't noticed before , but now that I did , it seemed that funerals , and allied subjects , were very much the in thing . |
| 9 | If you stood and watched them all day , you 'd be certain to keep spotting the odd fish you had n't noticed before . |
| 10 | There was a switch she had n't noticed before . |
| 11 | I had n't noticed before , I was too upset for details like that . ’ |
| 12 | There was a slight hoarseness in his voice which she had n't noticed before . |
| 13 | I had n't noticed before . ’ |
| 14 | I snap , eyeing the lobsters , and observing a dozen fat oysters , discreetly arranged around them , which I had n't noticed before . |
| 15 | Philip saw what he had n't seen before , a ‘ For Sale ’ notice stuck in a holly bush by the corner of the house . |
| 16 | This was a Karen I had n't seen before , and one I did n't have much time for , to be frank . |
| 17 | There was so much , Brian thought , that he had n't seen before . |
| 18 | Ed and a group of kids he had n't seen before were all slumped around a slick looking computer games console — all plugged into the machine via wires and electrodes . |
| 19 | The second Lady Deverill , also riding side-saddle and turned out in a quite immaculate habit , pulled up alongside Artemis on a bay Artemis had n't seen before . |
| 20 | When the maid had gone he looked back at Virginia 's woe-begone face , aware of something else which he had n't seen before . |
| 21 | On one long wall hung a row of Van Goghs , including an Arles " Poets ' Garden " he had n't seen before , but recognised , from small photographs , from charged descriptions in the painter 's letters . |
| 22 | Something I had n't seen before . |
| 23 | Within sat Mait , in plain robes , and a black woman whom Ace had n't seen before , who was dressed in a network of silk strips that left much of her body visible . |
| 24 | I looked nervously at her face , but it wore a smile , a reminiscent smile that I had n't seen before . |
| 25 | On the window was a small sticker I had n't seen before : ‘ Ne jetez pas l ‘ énergie par les fenêtres en les ouvrant en période de chauffage . ’ |
| 26 | Madeleine was wearing a dress Thérèse had n't seen before . |
| 27 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 28 | Beneath the small screen was an intricate keyboard system , although nothing Rex had n't seen before . |
| 29 | There was a strange expression on his face , one she had n't seen before , and a little shiver touched her spine . |
| 30 | David 's eyes were fixed on her with an intensity she had n't seen before . |