Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 2 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 3 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had not imagined him a sportsman . |
| 8 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 9 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 10 | Then they ground quickly to a halt , because the company had n't understood what a drain input-output would be on the functioning of the machine . |
| 11 | I was in a discourse , a medical discourse , and I had n't understood what a discourse was before . |
| 12 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 13 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 14 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 15 | I would , he added mentally — if I had n't seen what the Luggage does to prying fingers . |
| 16 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 17 | Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought . |
| 18 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 19 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 20 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 21 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
| 22 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 23 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 24 | Had n't given her a key , but Lucy supposed that there were limits . |
| 25 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 26 | and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me . |
| 27 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 28 | The bastard had n't left her an ounce of pride . |
| 29 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |