Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 2 | Abraham 's previous experience of God would certainly not have led him to suppose child-sacrifice would please him . |
| 3 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 4 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely , Inspector , Sir Thomas would have noticed the bitter taste — and would not have drunk it ? ’ said James , coming to the rescue . |
| 6 | But it is possible that the Dostoevsky scholar whose book prompted Bayley 's comment might not have understood it — how could an acknowledged great novel , worth writing about at length , be said not to ‘ come off ’ ? |
| 7 | Now there are times when Jesus actually sat down with his disciples afterwards and explained to them what the parable was about and there was a reason for that , it was because , simply , the folk would not have understood it . |
| 8 | It would certainly not have given him access to the kind of personalized data about effective relationships which her oral history interviews unearthed . |
| 9 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 10 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 11 | I 'd not have given you the task otherwise ! ’ |
| 12 | a wisdom I could not have given you |
| 13 | I think a lot of er a lot of wives may not have given you as much information as Maggie did . |
| 14 | ‘ They were always totally supportive of the company and the publicity from the Embassy could not have given us a better boost or image . ’ |
| 15 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 16 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 17 | Wild beasts would not have stopped him . |
| 18 | He left her so abruptly that she could not have stopped him even if she had known what to say . |
| 19 | Wild beasts would not have stopped me . ’ |
| 20 | If a partner never could see the point of going to all those meetings , it may not have stopped you but it certainly took the joy out of attending . |
| 21 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 22 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 23 | He said it warmly and gently , and at this Lydia was surprised since she had thought her remarks somewhat offensive and would not have made them had she still been in love with Finn and desirous of his good opinion . |
| 24 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 25 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 26 | I would not have made him motm against Oldham , I thought the Oldham defenders Jobson and Redmond were the best players on the park . |
| 27 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 28 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 29 | However , we might not have made it clear that the regulations make no change in s 283 of the CA 1985 . |
| 30 | If they had climbed down the side of the escarpment he had no doubt that she would not have made it . |