Example sentences of "had [not/n't] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial staff had not given councillors detailed information about the scope or extent of its involvement on the money market . |
| 2 | Until yesterday morning , the Ministry had not given the nuns any information on the tests they had made or what these had revealed . |
| 3 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 4 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 5 | After all , she had not given up any of her friends for him . |
| 6 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 7 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 8 | But she was feeling guilty : she had not given and she would not give Miss Danziger Fru Gertlinger 's note . |
| 9 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 10 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 11 | The following day , doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital refused to operate because the parents had not given consent . |
| 12 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 13 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 14 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 15 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 16 | He said that the Government had not given satisfactory reasons for choosing Scott . |
| 17 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 18 | The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous . |
| 19 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 20 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |
| 21 | But seconds later she stopped breathing again — and John , who had not given emergency treatment for three years , had to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation four times until paramedics arrived . |
| 22 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 23 | Ernst & Young thought that the APB had not given enough weight to the collateral changes which would be required , the timescale involved in the changes , and the very substantial costs which would arise . |
| 24 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 25 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 26 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
| 27 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 28 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 29 | Even then , Sarah had not given up on her marriage . |
| 30 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |