Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pron] [verb] n't [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 2 | I 've had antibiotics but they have n't done nothing . |
| 3 | " The doctor gave me some tranquillisers but they have n't helped either . |
| 4 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 5 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 7 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 8 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 9 | I 'd like Rice Crispies but we have n't got any out . |
| 10 | I 've got my glasses but I have n't got the . |
| 11 | The Russian 's build this things but they have n't got the money to finance them |
| 12 | ‘ I owe 500 bucks but I have n't paid yet , ’ said Joe . |
| 13 | Now there are tighter ways of actual sales negotiations but we have n't got the time to go into it today . |
| 14 | which we 've got a couple of big ones but we have n't got like extra ones outside the garden dropping leaves . |
| 15 | Yes , I have n't seen it though , I have n't , I 've heard of the new ones but I have n't seen it . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've made a lot of accusations but you have n't come up with a single shred of evidence to back them up . ’ |
| 17 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |