Example sentences of "i have not [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island .
2 The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them .
3 and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ?
4 ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’
5 I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’
6 I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me .
7 It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with .
8 What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ?
9 We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors .
10 And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing .
11 Alright it was your I wished I had n't got there to be quite honest but cold as that
12 Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached
13 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 . ’
14 It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 .
15 I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department …
16 For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained .
17 I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it .
18 I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to !
19 Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole .
20 There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’
21 I do n't know , I 've not fished there in the evening , yet .
22 and I 've not come back till twelve !
23 I have n't written much about G.P. these last days .
24 you know when Les , oh she says there 's been about half a dozen people at that paint shop , sends chops and changes she said she said , she said I have n't lived there for three and a half years
25 I have n't heard yet from anybody that regeneration 's properly been taken into account in the calculations within local level or county level .
26 I have n't grown up at all , she thought hopelessly .
27 ‘ Medieval armies captured my imagination , too , as a boy , and I have n't grown out of it yet . ’
28 ‘ Well , I have n't done up to now . ’
29 I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] .
30 This then is a ragbag of pieces , some still to be performed out loud , which I have n't collected together till now .
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