Example sentences of "they had not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 2 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 3 | They had not crushed the ashes in the hearth , the ink would still show up the names , if that sheriff had thought to look ! |
| 4 | No , they had not ‘ intimidated ’ the proprietors , they had urged them to sign documents pledging themselves to appeal to government to rescind the Act . |
| 5 | They had not . |
| 6 | they had not Magna Charta |
| 7 | Many said they had not slept but had spent the night moving around to keep warm . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | For years 45 Sutton Place became a meeting place and home-from-home for the entire British colony in New York — a place where British actors , writers and directors , great and small , knew that they had not only a constant refuge but a friendly shoulder to lean on and a sympathetic ear . |
| 10 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |
| 11 | They had not been given details of the legislation and so were unable to counter opposition scaremongering . |
| 12 | The bagpipes were still there , they had not played a note since yesterday afternoon . |
| 13 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 14 | They had not seen the party programme and regulations , nor any copy of their own journal Young Guard . |
| 15 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 16 | When forty-two railway-workers who defected from Syzran' station were put on trial , their sentence was alleviated because they had not been paid . |
| 17 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 18 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 19 | Of course they had not . |
| 20 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 21 | They had not come to rescue her , but the child whom Phoebe would not let be born . |
| 22 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 23 | The fact that they had not fought about it should have announced their despair . |
| 24 | Arriving , she saw that the front door was still open : perhaps she had not been gone long , perhaps they had not yet missed her . |
| 25 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 26 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 27 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 28 | The Africanists , whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC , decided not to attend , asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee . |
| 29 | The presiding jury claimed they had not chosen her , as she alleged , but Elina Guimaraes , an 84-year-old former suffragette . |
| 30 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |