Example sentences of "have not [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
2 | I want you and I believe you owe me , but wanting you has n't unbalanced me to the extent you seem to believe . |
3 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
4 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
5 | I demure about continuing and if our support had n't forced me towards the river then the watching crowd would have done so . |
6 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
7 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ his lordship said , ‘ you have n't shot me in the kneecaps yet . ’ |
8 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
9 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |