Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the US Congress remained hostile , the US administration had not voiced its opposition to the proposed agreement in spite of its previous strong objections to any forced repatriation , preferring instead to maintain a " neutral reaction " to deportations . |
| 2 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 3 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 4 | Great Britain was almost the only remaining State which had not extended its protection to this important art . |
| 5 | Priscilla White was going to own a ‘ lor ra , lor ra ’ hairdressing salons if she had not changed her name to Cilla Black and become a singer . |
| 6 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 7 | He 'd torn it free , pocketed it , had not mentioned its existence to Buchanan . |
| 8 | He felt guilty but relieved that he had not put his name to it . |
| 9 | William Wallace of Elderslie , son of a Renfrewshire landowner , was one of the lesser gentry who had not put his name to the document of submissions , known as the Ragman 's Roll because of the ribbons dangling from its seals . |
| 10 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 11 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |