Example sentences of "have n't [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 2 | By comparison with the immense popularity of contemporary feminist fiction , it seems that feminist art has n't broken out of the tine art ‘ ghetto ’ . |
| 3 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 4 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 5 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 6 | That 's how we know he has n't slipped over into the next valley . |
| 7 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 9 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 10 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 11 | Leaks at compression joints ( page 23 ) can usually be cured by tightening the nuts ( make sure the pipe has n't pulled out of the sealing ring ) ; curing a leak in soldered capillary joints and solvent-welded joints in plastic pipes is more difficult and usually involves draining and remaking the joint ( pages 22 and 28 ) . |
| 12 | The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward . |
| 13 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 14 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |
| 15 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 16 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 17 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 18 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 19 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 20 | He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office . |
| 21 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 22 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 23 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 24 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 25 | The waiter brought the champagne and thumped it around in a bucket of ice to persuade us that it had n't come out of the refrigerator . |
| 26 | He had n't come out of the divorce too well . |
| 27 | They are complaining about loss of assets ’ — looked as though they had n't come out of the Bermans and Nathans mothballs . |
| 28 | Quickly look around to make sure that you have n't jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and , if all is well , start running . |
| 29 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 30 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |