Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Students ' Union had supported the strike , and its members had not complained about a day 's holiday from lectures . |
| 3 | Vincent — partly because of exhaustion — had not written to a soul in months . |
| 4 | It had not rained for a week and the white dust of the road started to dull the shine of all the shoes . |
| 5 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
| 6 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 7 | She turned on Constanza ; Constanza lost her head , she struck back , she said the things she had not said in a life-time , the things that should not be said . |
| 8 | And Holly had not gazed on a woman for thirteen months . |
| 9 | Staff had spent most of Friday afternoon and evening looking for the child and the owner , Alan Tym , had gone back again late that night to double check that James had not crawled behind a counter or into a cupboard and fallen asleep . |
| 10 | It was not a ‘ true ’ style because it had not developed within an era to meet a genuine need ; it was merely copying the dead and it ‘ degrades architecture from its high position of a quasi-natural production to that of a mere imitative art ’ , a criticism often levied by professional architects against the wishes of the man in the street . |
| 11 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 12 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 13 | His hand had not wavered for a moment . |
| 14 | The city accountant had compared Derry 's acreage , which had not changed for a century , with other Northern Ireland towns . |
| 15 | Indeed , he might be within the sections and subject to orders even though he had not entered into a transaction with the company or debtor at all . |
| 16 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 17 | He had not shaved for a day or two , and there was fair stubble on his cheeks and jaw . |
| 18 | Agreement on this package within the administration had not occurred without a struggle . |
| 19 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 20 | I had not looked in a mirror for a long time , not closely . |
| 21 | Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response . |
| 22 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 23 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 24 | They admitted they were told on Saturday that Timothy had not returned from a 250-mile trip from Tilbury in Essex — but they only found the lorry on Monday morning . |
| 25 | What is worse , the ‘ sixties had not resulted in a spate of psychopathic killers trying to emulate the movies , but films like ‘ The Exorcist ’ resulted in many people imagining they were possessed . |
| 26 | He had , correctly , seen the civil rights movement as a realisation of one aspect of the new republican strategy and he had observed that the turn to legal and open political work had not resulted in an elimination of the IRA 's military capacity . |
| 27 | THE Jockey Club has decided to take no disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco as any error of judgment had not resulted from a breach of their rules . |
| 28 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 29 | Of course , she had n't bargained for a hurricane . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose you had n't bargained for a will ? ’ |