Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The numbers of people who are using Heartwatch is a testament to the fact that the novelty has not worn off . |
| 3 | It 's Norman 's 13th year at Chelsea , but the thrill of showing at the country 's premier flower show still has n't worn off . |
| 4 | Have to be careful it has n't gone off . |
| 5 | He has n't run off with you . |
| 6 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 7 | I remember going to one rehearsal up in Durham and I said , Well where 's the trumpet player ? and they said , Well he has n't come off shift yet . |
| 8 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client-server applications . |
| 9 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client/server applications . |
| 10 | I wondered sometimes if the effects of some sedative given perhaps the night before had not worn off completely by the time I came . |
| 11 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 12 | They noted with fear Terry Wade 's eight goals within a minute and it was lucky for them the referee had not kicked off before he scored them . |
| 13 | William Guthrie , owner of the New Albert , said it was sad that the catering facility had not taken off . |
| 14 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 15 | She wondered how he 'd be if his father had not driven off or if his mother had shown him more affection . |
| 16 | ‘ If he had n't bunked off till I was forty I think it might have been better . |
| 17 | The girls would have stayed undiscovered while parents David and Sharon Schoo spent a week in Acapulco , Mexico , if a smoke alarm in their home near Chicago had n't gone off . |
| 18 | It 's not , the beer had n't gone off ? |
| 19 | ‘ It would never have needed to come out if Graham had n't rushed off to Beirut to find Bernard . ’ |
| 20 | Er yeah I had n't finished off this that 's probably what the problem was . |
| 21 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 22 | She had n't switched off the light . |
| 23 | ‘ Not then , no , because the scheme we 'd concocted was that my ‘ husband ’ was a soldier , who 'd died abroad , and everyone would , hopefully , have continued to believe it , if Phena had n't flounced off to England to discover her roots ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 26 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 27 | And if kids have have n't shut off before then , they always get that prayer if the preacher is being particularly sensitive or insensitive to you know , You talk about a God of nature . |
| 28 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 29 | Just to make sure they have n't gone off . |
| 30 | I have n't fallen off , but my back wheel 's in the air , and I 'm leaning on the guy 's boot . |