Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 2 | That 's a swizz that one , you get to the end and they 've not got in the pool |
| 3 | Everybody 's been doing it , but they 've not thought about it as a design process and they have not usually brought people with design skills into the team to make these things happen better . |
| 4 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 5 | If they had n't rushed into breeding so early in their marriage , maybe Charles and Diana could have avoided many of their problems . |
| 6 | So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did . |
| 7 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 8 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 9 | Patrick and Jane had remained in the flat in Kelly Street since they had brought there two days ago , they had n't ventured outside the door and had remained quiet and away from the windows . |
| 10 | The three two lurchers and a Staffordshire bull terrier are being cared for now by the RSPCA workers who believe they had n't eaten for at least a month . |
| 11 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 12 | After she had told him , they had n't gone to the pictures for a month , so that he could see her home . |
| 13 | They had n't gone into a house as I 'd thought . |
| 14 | They had n't said to one another that they could n't understand his talk about the Abigails and the Dasses and Mr Plant or the Artilleryman 's Friend . |
| 15 | They had n't met for years . |
| 16 | And there was always hope that the Westward family would see her one day as an elegant lady and be sorry they had n't kept in touch with the child who was after all their own flesh and blood . |
| 17 | What they had n't bargained for was a sudden and dramatic change in the weather . |
| 18 | She was surprised that they had n't sent at least a detective . |
| 19 | They had n't moved with the times . |
| 20 | Did people want any special kind of photos during the war that they had n't asked for previously ? |
| 21 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 22 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |
| 23 | She 'd rang the police and they had n't heard of any . |
| 24 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 25 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 26 | Even now there are a few people waking up in Goroka hospital with only one arm , wishing they had n't got between Mr Cassowary and his girl-friends . " |
| 27 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 28 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 29 | When they had n't returned by 9.30pm I was starting to worry . |
| 30 | They had n't slept for hours . |