Example sentences of "had not [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 2 | After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge . |
| 3 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 4 | His co-pilot , Kamran Irani had n't returned to his home in Ramsden near Witney . |
| 5 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |