Example sentences of "had not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the two countries had resumed diplomatic relations in 1956 , the outstanding territorial issue had frozen bilateral relations to the extent that they had not even signed a peace treaty formally ending the Pacific War . |
| 2 | But he had not even caught a glimpse of a young girl . |
| 3 | Taking the new ball at 294 for three had not immediately provided a breakthrough , and DeSilva , on 80 , looked set to steer Sri Lanka to a sizeable first innings lead . |
| 4 | Taking the new ball at 294 for three had not immediately provided a breakthrough , and DeSilva , on 80 , looked set to steer Sri Lanka to a sizeable first innings lead . |
| 5 | Fowler had not yet heard a word from Cissie , which perhaps explained why the old man asked and answered his own questions . |
| 6 | He , like Lewis , had not yet reached a position of religious faith , but he was dissatisfied with purely materialistic explanations for life 's mysteries , and he found the conversation of Barfield intoxicating . |
| 7 | The conventions were changing , assumptions were changing , though not everybody was to enjoy or to survive the metamorphosis , the plunge , the leap into water or air ; change is painful , transition is painful , and the social world had not yet reached a stage which could have greeted as conventional , precisely , even at a much-mixed , smart , Bohemian-flavoured cosmopolitan New Year 's Eve party , the excessively raised voices of two journalist-historians , once friends and allies and fellow contributors to the current of immortal truth and to the New Statesman , now locked in bitter dispute about that ghastly , trailing decaying albatross-corpse of the Left , Public Ownership and Clause 4 : ‘ You squint-eyed git , you treacherous , turncoat , lying , statistic-faking git , ’ shouted Giles , the man of the Left , who appeared to be losing the argument , his voice rising above the more amiable party hubbub in a shriek of despair , a shriek that summoned to his side Liz Headleand , with Kate Armstrong and Ivan Warner in quick attendance . |
| 8 | The group 's five new businesses — DK Multimedia , DK Education , DK Cartography , DK Vision and DK Family Library — had not yet made a contribution to pretax profit but were now beginning to generate momentum . |
| 9 | And he said he had not yet received a letter sent by Dr Roger Vaughan , chairman and chief executive of Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside . |
| 10 | At a time when it had not yet developed a project portfolio , it was concerned with such questions as how to set up a broadcasting system which would serve society as a whole rather than merely serving governments and the ruling elites . |
| 11 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 12 | He had not yet adopted a position of unequivocal hostility . |
| 13 | At this time localism had not yet become a threat . |
| 14 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 15 | Its message was that Africa had not yet produced a generation of political leaders capable of providing the leadership it needs . |
| 16 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 17 | He was happy enough for Lyle to win ; desperately disappointed that he had not yet won a major himself . |
| 18 | In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it . |
| 19 | Besides , he had not yet had a chance to speak to the investigating magistrate about the pay-off . |
| 20 | But he had not yet mastered a way of putting it into words . |
| 21 | As Maryon had not long had a baby , we decided that Alan should volunteer , as he did not have such a valid excuse ! |
| 22 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |
| 23 | The starting point for this discussion — of the changing division of labour by sectors and by strata , and of the social pattern of recruitment of individuals to the positions within these divisions — was the condition of party politics as the 1960s ended , and in particular the position of the Labour Party , which had forfeited the active support on important sections of its ‘ traditional ’ partisans yet had not apparently suffered a collapse of electoral support ( as indicated by opinion polls before the 1970 election ) . |
| 24 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 25 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 26 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 27 | I definitely would n't have done it if I had n't already released a heap of my own songs . |
| 28 | However , his family was extremely tolerant , unlike Vincent 's — even though Rappard had n't yet earned a cent from his art . |
| 29 | Everyone looked faintly surprised , for I had n't previously volunteered a remark . |
| 30 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |