Example sentences of "had not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 2 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 3 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 4 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 5 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 6 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 7 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 8 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 9 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 10 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
| 11 | Nora had not seen her like that since the day she and Sam had arrived at Coutances . |
| 12 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 15 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 , ’ |
| 19 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As she uttered these words she thought they sounded snide and insinuating , sarcastic even , though she had not meant them like that . |
| 23 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 24 | So he had not failed her after all ! |
| 25 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 28 | She had n't coerced him in any way . |
| 29 | His words had n't affected me at all . |
| 30 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |