Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 2 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 3 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 4 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 5 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 6 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 7 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 8 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 9 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 10 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 11 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 12 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 13 | She had n't coerced him in any way . |
| 14 | ‘ It would n't have happened if that that cow had n't destroyed him in public . |
| 15 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 16 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 17 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 18 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 19 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 20 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 21 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 22 | After all her husband is in Venice- and she had n't seen him in all the war years , ’ he said . |
| 23 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 24 | Or did , ’ she qualified — the last few letters had n't mentioned him at all . |
| 25 | She had n't known him at all . |