Example sentences of "have not [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |
| 2 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 3 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 4 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 5 | But she still stresses the necessity of an expert test — and the board 's concern that the information has not yet got through to all the householders in the area who are at risk . |
| 6 | Paradoxically the miriad-mind is the ‘ I ’ mind , the mind which does not simply observe , but enters into the essence of other substances or beings , be they people , animals , things or even the ghosts and spirits , angels and demons , which Reason itself has not yet driven out of the world we experience in waking and sleeping , in loving and in hating . |
| 7 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 8 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 9 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 10 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 11 | Are you sure it has n't just run out of petrol ? ’ |
| 12 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 13 | Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , 48 , had not exactly dressed up for his meeting with John Major . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , ’ she murmured , and smiled to show that her heart had not just sunk down into her boots . |
| 15 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 16 | For he had not yet fallen on upon any of them . |
| 17 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 18 | The Water Board had not yet caught up with them . |
| 19 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 20 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 21 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 22 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 23 | M. Dupont had not once looked over in Mr Lewis 's direction during the course of this speech , and indeed , once the company had toasted his lordship and were seated again , all those present seemed to be studiously avoiding looking towards the American gentleman . |
| 24 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 25 | At twenty he had not quite grown out of the gangling stage either in the control of his long limbs or in the expression of his most deeply felt thoughts and emotions . |
| 26 | The green lawns were bright and cut close , the thickets of daffodils had not quite died down along the edges of the drive . |
| 27 | She said to her lap , ‘ I — I had not quite got round to it — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Tell me something I had n't already figured out for myself . |
| 29 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 30 | It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat . |