Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 2 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 3 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 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 | Bora Mulitonovic 's side had won just once in their last 16 games and they had not scored for 389 minutes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In another undated letter to Gaunt Minton admits that owing to the pressure of illustrative work he had not painted for eight months . |
| 9 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 12 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 15 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 16 | Most of the members had not joined for political reasons but quite openly admitted the social attractions of the YCs . |
| 17 | The London masons complained in 1775 that their 50s ( £2.50 ) a week had not changed for seventy years . |
| 18 | She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights . |
| 19 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 20 | Foinavon had not won for two seasons and was considered a plodder and a sketchy jumper — hardly the type for the rigours of the National . |
| 21 | By the time Crawford returned to the stage in mid-1971 , he had not worked for fourteen months . |
| 22 | Belgium , as a member state of the EEC , had not legislated for equal pay . |
| 23 | She felt exhausted ; she had not spoken for ten minutes and felt that unless she said something soon she would disappear . |
| 24 | It was particularly offensive because Cliff had not spoken for ten days in order to rest his larynx and avoid surgery before a new tour . |
| 25 | I had n't ridden for three years . |
| 26 | He had n't appeared for this scene : none of the actors had . |
| 27 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |
| 28 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 29 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 30 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |