Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [be] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | Smiling to himself , he looked idly across the road and saw Francesca , who should not have been back till Thursday . |
| 3 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 4 | On stage , however , corseted and hypertense , sounds would emerge which would not have been out of place in the nest of a fledgeling sedge-warbler . |
| 5 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |
| 6 | I would n't have been back in time . |
| 7 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 8 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |