Example sentences of "[pron] have [not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell me something I had n't already figured out for myself . |
| 2 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 3 | I was hop I had n't , I had n't really made up my mind that 's plenty biscuits Paula , yeah it 's plent do n't get , biscuit mania , Easter eggs , God |
| 4 | Unfortunately , I had n't really kept up with technology and Windows , as far as I was concerned , was something behind the curtains . |
| 5 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 6 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 7 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 8 | She said to her lap , ‘ I — I had not quite got round to it — ’ |
| 9 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 10 | which I have n't yet got on to cos I wanted to hear most , at least most of the arguments on this aspect of the case , although it 's got very in effect very little to do with the other , other , but it does n't see round , er I could get on with that to a degree , er , so I do n't mind too much , but I think Friday is , is asking to much from Mr |
| 11 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't completely given up on the Steinbergers , though . |
| 13 | In fact I 'm playing Xerium , of all things , and blow me down , blow me up if I have n't just found out how to get over the Mountains of Zound at long , long last . |
| 14 | But I think it must be , I got up when he went to work , half past seven and I have n't sat down I have n't even sat down then to eat because I |
| 15 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 16 | It has even been suggested that it is possible to use inimical remedies with impunity although I have n't actively set out to prove or disprove this . |
| 17 | I have n't quite worked out what I sell , and I nearly blow it when John , the club 's proprietor , asks me that very question . |
| 18 | But unfortunately I have n't quite come up with an answer to the question yet . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 20 | ‘ No , I have n't really got round to it , ’ he said , frowning a little , as if he ought to have done . |
| 21 | North Yorkshire in the P P G. And can I put for erm in the P P G. Could I put forward a scenario to you , which I have n't really thought through . |
| 22 | Well I have n't long got up |
| 23 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 24 | As I have not yet heard back from you since then , I wonder if you could confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 25 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 26 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 27 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 28 | Mr Ayre said a national report earlier in the week showed grant maintained schools were faring better than their counterparts which had not yet opted out . |
| 29 | Paradoxically the miriad-mind is the ‘ I ’ mind , the mind which does not simply observe , but enters into the essence of other substances or beings , be they people , animals , things or even the ghosts and spirits , angels and demons , which Reason itself has not yet driven out of the world we experience in waking and sleeping , in loving and in hating . |
| 30 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |