Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted .
2 You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it ,
3 My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum .
4 I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’
5 I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's .
6 And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me .
7 ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’
8 I had not yet decided whether her eyes were grey or hazel .
9 But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom .
10 I had not yet escaped the strangeness of being with people who , over the years , had become largely fictional to me .
11 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 . ’
12 This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly .
13 At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble .
14 I had not yet told Margaret it was from Bill .
15 I had not yet learnt that a German is not necessarily angry because he is shouting , and so was surprised when he added in a gentle cooing voice :
16 I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him .
17 It was not as good as I should have wished , partly because I was in a hurry , but also partly because I had not yet learnt — if I was ever to master — the technique of literary criticism .
18 I had not yet recovered from the simple shock of finding that many of them talked and behaved exactly like us .
19 It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left .
20 But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world .
21 I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
22 I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
23 There seemed to be something which I had not properly understood .
24 That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised .
25 The hon. Gentleman has introduced me to sayings of his in the House today that I had not previously appreciated .
26 Despite the handicaps of age , gender and origin , I learnt a lot about a medium I had not previously considered .
27 I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that example , which I had not previously come across .
28 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
29 I did not like to ask ; I had not even liked to ask Leo .
30 I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months .
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