Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it helps , his fiancée has not exactly endeared herself to anyone in the short time that she 's been here . |
| 2 | But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak . |
| 3 | Nor was it that reforms already undertaken by Russia 's post-communist government , if only supported with a pile of hard currency , will deliver a lasting rise in living standards — because Russia has not yet done anything like enough . |
| 4 | That body has not yet contacted me about the Bill although the Association of Railway Preservation Societies and David Morgan thereof certainly have . |
| 5 | In other words , CBT has not yet proved itself in conceptual training where , perhaps , knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence may need to be deployed . |
| 6 | In general terms this means that if one sets up a trust to accumulate income , and the settlor has not completely divested himself of the trust property , he will be chargeable to income tax on the trust income . |
| 7 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 8 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 9 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 10 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 11 | She has n't still got it in her ear has she ? |
| 12 | And I said well And she , well to be honest Bren she said , she has n't really done anything to me and Sid has she ? |
| 13 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 14 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 15 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 16 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 17 | She had not even discussed them with Brian . |
| 18 | In Galilee Judaism had not even established itself until 120 B.C. and much pre-Judaic thought still survived . |
| 19 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 20 | Standing staring appalled at the devastation she had caused , she became aware that the Perks had not instantly attacked her in retaliation for their leader 's ignominious defeat . |
| 21 | This prayer alert called several together who had not previously seen it as their responsibility . |
| 22 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 23 | The legislation looks forward to the settled agricultural life of Canaan — Israel 's rebelliousness had not yet condemned her to 40 years in the Sinai peninsula . |
| 24 | They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life . |
| 25 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 26 | Braque , on the other hand , although he was only six months younger than Picasso , was slower in his development and had not yet established himself as a particularly original or significant painter ; indeed , Braque subsequently came to feel that the paintings he executed in Antwerp during the summer of 1906 were his first creative works . |
| 27 | At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy . |
| 28 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 29 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 30 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |