Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't ridden for three years . |
| 2 | Obviously I get the odd pains from it because I 'm doing things I have n't done for 15 months . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I have n't done in five years : please myself . |
| 4 | That 's not to say they are things that are happening this month that , that I have n't planned for three months ago . |
| 5 | I have n't slept for two years |
| 6 | One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't come within three players of putting out my best team , ’ he was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 8 | I have n't worked for 30 years , since my first child was born . |
| 9 | Letting someone who is hungry and overweight , and who has n't eaten for six hours , loose in a supermarket should be a criminal offence ! |
| 10 | ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said |
| 11 | Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’ |
| 12 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 13 | She had n't heard of one of those . |
| 14 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 15 | ‘ I came across families who had n't eaten for four days . |
| 16 | ‘ Noriega looked like a man who had n't slept for 20 days , ’ said Mr Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 17 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 18 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 19 | There 's only Mary and the sisters you have n't seen for ten years , if you can count them . |
| 20 | You have n't changed in eight years . |
| 21 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 22 | We have n't lost in 13 league games 8 of which are wins . |
| 23 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 24 | There 's been an awful lot of discussion about this particular motion and I sha n't attempt cos we have n't got till three o'clock in the morning I do n't think , to answer all the points . |
| 25 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 26 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 27 | They had n't said to one another that they could n't understand his talk about the Abigails and the Dasses and Mr Plant or the Artilleryman 's Friend . |
| 28 | They had n't spoken to one another about Timothy Gedge , either last night or since Stephen had closed the French windows in his face , several hours ago . |
| 29 | If they have n't guessed after three clues then she chooses another card . |
| 30 | ‘ He has n't exercised for five years and has no muscle tone left but now he is able to exercise in the gym . |