Example sentences of "had not [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
2 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
3 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
4 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
5 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , told the three Panel Members that the grounds for referral had not changed since the last Hearing three weeks previously . |
6 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
7 | She had wanted to draw again , and to paint , and she had not wondered before the first class as to the group she would be joining . |
8 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
9 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |
10 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |