Example sentences of "have [pron] not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 2 | It would have helped , perhaps , had she not known that Odette , in her place , would have given up everything and anything had , in fact , already several times done so — for love . |
| 3 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 4 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 5 | Presumably he would have continued in the office for the whole of the pontificate , had he not died before it ended . |
| 6 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 7 | Have you not noticed that my life has changed ? |
| 8 | Mr Aycliffe , have you not thought that he could have been imprisoned ? ’ |
| 9 | Have we not seen that producers are entrepreneurs who can neverbe immune from the forces of competition ? |