Example sentences of "he [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't worn too well , to be honest . |
| 2 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |
| 3 | He has n't played a Becker yet … ’ |
| 4 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 5 | Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions . |
| 6 | He has n't got the underground man 's bodiless analytic clarity . |
| 7 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 8 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 9 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 10 | As a star opera director whose career is becoming increasingly orientated towards the theatre , it is understandable that he has n't often found the time to stray from the great metropolises to mount a production . |
| 11 | Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions following the hearing , except to say he has n't seen his brother-in-law . |
| 12 | ‘ Some people said that he 'd have to change his style when he turned professional , but so far he 's stuck to his natural game , and he has n't done badly with it so far . |
| 13 | He has n't got a map and has never been to Bayswater before . |
| 14 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When he did n't come , ’ she said , ‘ I thought He has n't made it , he has n't made Jack 's party . |
| 16 | ‘ When he did n't come , ’ she said , ‘ I thought He has n't made it , he has n't made Jack 's party . |
| 17 | If he has n't got a nice home you call him a layabout . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Only he has n't got any imagination , ’ he said . |
| 19 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 20 | Being in rude good health , he has n't actually met the GP in question . |
| 21 | But he reckons he must be sympathetic , because he has n't sent one of the BMA 's pro-forma protest letters . |
| 22 | He confesses he has n't the face to make enquiries about methods and means of contraception , even in the most indirect way . |
| 23 | ‘ He has n't got his collar on . ’ |
| 24 | It 's the first time in his career he has n't come out on top . |
| 25 | He has n't done anything to you . |
| 26 | Dot wanted to ask , He has n't got a wooden leg has he ? |
| 27 | He has n't stopped coming to see you , has he ? ’ |
| 28 | He has n't got the bottle for anything else . |
| 29 | But I might get Madge 's money back for her , if he has n't spent it already . |
| 30 | ‘ No , he has n't got it , ’ said Marie . |