Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 2 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 3 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 4 | Wish I had n't messed up every relationship I ever had . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Er , actually , I had n't run out . |
| 6 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 10 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 11 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |
| 12 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
| 13 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 14 | Er yeah I had n't finished off this that 's probably what the problem was . |
| 15 | Which I had n't known about or my mother and otherwise living near enough they could have s done that school and gone through from five years to er fourteen . |
| 16 | There was a shoe in the flowerbed that I had n't known about . |
| 17 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 18 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 19 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 20 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 22 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 23 | And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing . |
| 24 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 25 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 27 | After giving you the brush-off , as you thought , and then bellowing and being so bloody judgemental at the time Simon crashed , I had n't come over as either sensitive or supportive . |
| 28 | I was n't even gon na tell Scott I had n't come on ! |
| 29 | And then , quite suddenly and unwished , the thought : ‘ Wish I had n't come back . ’ |
| 30 | I had n't sat down because he had n't asked me to . |