Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 2 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 3 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 4 | He had not reckoned with the fact that the second charge of canister could not be fired . |
| 5 | They had not reckoned with the mentality of CPP officials , used to exercising unchallenged authority in a one-party state . |
| 6 | Apart from their undoubted strengths in these matters , the Germans have also been motivated by the belief that Germany 's ( and Europe 's ) disunity was an unnatural state which had not existed in the past . |
| 7 | Bush polled 88 per cent of the vote compared with 2 per cent for Buchanan ( who had not campaigned in the state ) and 17 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 8 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 9 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 10 | The Confait Case ( 1977 ) illustrated how innocent suspects could be pressurised into confessing to something they had not done in the face of sophisticated techniques of interrogation and rather less sophisticated threats . |
| 11 | Rain wished for her sake that the cup had not rattled in the saucer . |
| 12 | The Students ' Union had supported the strike , and its members had not complained about a day 's holiday from lectures . |
| 13 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 14 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 15 | After all , exploitation had not stopped with the theft of the gold . |
| 16 | Vincent — partly because of exhaustion — had not written to a soul in months . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said hesitantly , wishing that now she had not commented on the book , for one did not talk about poetry with chance acquaintances . |
| 18 | The firms will be liable for poor work and other breaches of professional standards and requirements , unless they can prove that they had not contributed to the misconduct which was wholly attributable to some other individual ( including partners , employees or non-members ) . |
| 19 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 20 | Sir Leon told the assembly that although Brussels was aware of the dissolving of the Enimont joint venture , the Commission had not heard about the court ruling . |
| 21 | He complained to Donaldson , who coolly said that he had not heard about the delegation , but if he was invited he would join it . |
| 22 | He claimed he had not heard of the Virgin Mary either . |
| 23 | He had not heard of the complaint , but promised : ‘ If we have a personal complaint , we would take it up . |
| 24 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 25 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 26 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 27 | Sheila had not moved from the settee , and Morse stood in the doorway looking back at her : ‘ Do n't you know ? ’ |
| 28 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 29 | The fact was , he had not felt in the book the impress of Walter Machin 's personality , as he had come to know it — or to think that he knew it . |
| 30 | It had not rained for a week and the white dust of the road started to dull the shine of all the shoes . |