Example sentences of "have not [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has not asked for any help from us . |
| 2 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 3 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 4 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 5 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 6 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 7 | Centre Andy Luke also returns , while Paul Rodgers is preferred at hooker to Mike Fenwick , who has n't played for several weeks . |
| 8 | Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time . |
| 9 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 10 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 11 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 12 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 13 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 14 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 15 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 16 | However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt . |
| 17 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 18 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 19 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 20 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 21 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 22 | He had n't appeared for this scene : none of the actors had . |
| 23 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 24 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 25 | You had n't spoken for some time . |
| 26 | She had the impression that she had n't smiled for several months . |
| 27 | If you have not exercised for some time , if you are generally unfit or if you know you have a particular medical condition , it is essential to consult your doctor before beginning a regular exercise routine . |
| 28 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 29 | In part , as the UNCTC considers , this is due to a ‘ widespread impression that service industries consist largely of technologically stagnant , small-scale personal services based on unskilled labour working with little capital in ways that have not changed for many years ’ . |
| 30 | Something you used to spend a lot of time at but have n't done for some time . |