Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 2 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 3 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 4 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 5 | Mr Donaldson emphasised the delay had not contributed in any way to the eventual death of the mechanic , William Donnelly . |
| 6 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 7 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 8 | The Hezbollah organization announced on June 30 that it would take part in the elections , although it had not participated in any government formed since the Taif accord . |
| 9 | ( Génération écologie had not contested in 1988 election . ) |
| 10 | She complained that her children had apparently not been allowed access to a Baptist minister , but was told that they had not asked for religious support when it was offered . |
| 11 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 12 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 13 | However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt . |
| 14 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 15 | She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did . |
| 16 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 17 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 18 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 20 | However , the shapechangers had not travelled to this planet in a space hopper . |
| 21 | How then was it possible that a similar contradiction in the social formation of India , China , and Peru had not led to similar development ? |
| 22 | Still the previous spills of asbestos in the factory had not led to any action by the workers . |
| 23 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 24 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 25 | He was too far off to be sure , the foreign face which maybe had not aged by another line , the gelid eyes , invisible . |
| 26 | The position had not changed by early NEP . |
| 27 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 30 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |