Example sentences of "i have [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 2 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 3 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 4 | This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine . |
| 5 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 6 | I had n't even looked at her properly . |
| 7 | I had n't even looked at who it was by . |
| 8 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 9 | In my tender pre-teen years , I had n't yet learned to be analytical — far less critical . |
| 10 | Every now and then Mazzin would run his hands over me , checking that I had n't somehow ripped off the bindings and was n't about to attack him . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't actually planned to , ’ Lindsey shot her a wry look , ‘ but yes . |
| 12 | Yeah I had n't actually thought of architects so that 's |
| 13 | I had n't actually thought of that before . |
| 14 | But I had n't actually looked at one , picked one up myself but she pinched four . |
| 15 | It 's strange since it meant , during performances , looking very closely at people I had n't quite looked at before — at the way they move , characteristic positions they stand in . ’ |
| 16 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
| 17 | ‘ So when I went into labour I had n't really thought about whether or not to have an epidural . |
| 18 | I had n't really thought about it . ’ |
| 19 | I had n't really thought about it , it 's erm it all depends on what farm I 'm going on cos I 've or erm cows an , cows and bullocks , you know . |
| 20 | I do n't know I had n't really thought about it . |
| 21 | But apart from that I had n't really thought about it really . |
| 22 | But , go back here , it 's interesting that you point out something I had n't really thought about , which is why I tend to use typefaces that are sort of garden variety — printer 's types , as opposed to the sweller Berthold revivals or whatever . |
| 23 | He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’ |
| 24 | I had not yet recovered from the simple shock of finding that many of them talked and behaved exactly like us . |
| 25 | Fool that I was , I had not even looked in the newspapers , let alone the stage journals … |
| 26 | ‘ I had not even thought of it . ’ |
| 27 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 28 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 29 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 30 | As will be seen , I had not quite expelled from my system the preoccupation with Rowse 's views ; and while one barrier to their expression had been removed , the other — that the book was no longer the target it had once been — had just been erected . |