Example sentences of "i have [not/n't] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 2 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 3 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 4 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |
| 5 | yesterday I have n't for four for five years . |
| 6 | I 've already told him I 'm gon na get my arse kicked cos I have n't for eight you see . |
| 7 | Anyway I have n't about any of the newfangled ideas . |
| 8 | I have not at any time or in any capacity written to Cllr Anderson . |
| 9 | I have not at any point heard Judge Tumim suggest that such a crime is appropriate . |
| 10 | I have not since 1918 been a religious woman . |
| 11 | I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing . |