Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] have [vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 2 | PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet . |
| 3 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 4 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 5 | MacQuillan , as a newcomer to the Fleet Street scene and a man who was averse to advice from others , appeared not to have realized this . |