Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pers pn] have not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 2 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 3 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 4 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 5 | Almost three-quarters of the men in our sample fantasize about having sex with someone they have not slept with . |
| 6 | Seventy-two per cent of the men in our sample say they fantasize about someone they have n't slept with , and 32% of them find their thoughts turning to sex when they 're at work . |
| 7 | Kim fought her way through a dozen pairs of clutching hands to bring me another pint of something I had n't asked for but would n't refuse . |
| 8 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 9 | This was something I had n't thought of . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's something I had n't thought of . ’ |
| 11 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 12 | In answer I did something I had not done in years . |
| 13 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 14 | In desperation I sometimes reverted to tuning step-by-step by harmonics , something I have n't done for yonks . |
| 15 | Every night I do something I have n't done for years . |
| 16 | All this was prompted by a week in Spain where I encountered something I have n't experienced in years — fresh air — and it 's quite gone to my head . |
| 17 | Or was there another sister , one I had n't heard of ? |
| 18 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 19 | Brushing out her hair and applying some make-up , something she had n't done for ages , she put on her mac . |
| 20 | She even hummed along with the radio as she rattled down the motorway , something she had n't felt like doing in a long time . |
| 21 | But since the day when Willi had brought her up here , to his farm , she had won back something she had n't had for years , a sense of balance , of proportion , a sense that there were a great many other things , other people in the world other than Therese Aschmann and her problems . |
| 22 | It was something she had n't thought about . |
| 23 | If he had spoken of forgiving , or pitying , or even loving , she would have been ready for him , but to be needed was something she had not looked for . |
| 24 | It sometimes helps if you choose something you have not done before either , but which interests you , so that you can share the activity on equal terms . |
| 25 | " Yes , well , at least that 's something you have n't got in Vienna . " |
| 26 | And I know so many songs that it would be fun to go out there and say , ‘ Hey , man , do you remember this one ? ’ or , ‘ Here 's one you have n't heard in a long time . ' ’ |
| 27 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 28 | One you have n't tried on me before . |
| 29 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 30 | It was something we had not thought about hitherto ; it just shows how ignorant we are . |