Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friend — for she and Rose had become quite close — had sniffed at Mrs Langtry , and said kindly , ‘ I ‘ ear as ‘ ow she 's a right fat cow these days , ’ and fortunately had not asked to look at the other one she had bought . |
| 2 | She had not intended changing for the evening , country inns being the right setting for good tweed suits ; but now she took her time about dressing , and chose a very austere frock in a dark russet-orange shade that touched off the marmalade lights in her eyes . |
| 3 | I had not intended to speak on the motion , but I feel that I must bring to the attention of the House certain points made by the Select Committee on Procedure in two reports to the House on the passage of legislation . |
| 4 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 5 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Official spokespeople claim the band had not planned to perform on the night , although NME 's source said : ‘ They were definitely going to do the gig , but it was pulled at the first sign of the news breaking . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 8 | Nearly a quarter of those in nursing homes had not had to pay towards the cost of living there compared with only 7 per cent of those in old people 's homes . |
| 9 | Adam knelt beside her , thinking of Zosie and Zosie 's mother and stepfather who had not bothered to go to the police when their daughter unaccountably vanished . |
| 10 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 11 | The policeman had not let go of the stranger . |
| 12 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |
| 13 | Was that the reason she had n't said to watch for the noticeboard ? |
| 14 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
| 15 | The talkative driver had n't stopped chatting from the moment Mark had entered the cab . |
| 16 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 17 | If he had n't wanted to invest in the Rose Bowl he could simply never have suggested it … |
| 18 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 19 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 20 | ‘ At this point I started to worry — what about those who do n't sort their picture books at all , and I had n't started to think about the book buyers yet … |
| 21 | At least she had n't had to wait over the lunch-hour . |
| 22 | She had n't dared to explore outside the confines of the hotel 's extensive grounds . |
| 23 | So I was spinning the cam round , it had n't got pinned to the shaft , just spinning it round on the shaft and these pawls were doing this and Les , the top one , he went to Kettering and then Don , the next top one , he went to er |
| 24 | As she stood in the hall , the recollection of the high-pitched voice seemed almost eerie to Mrs Blakey ; so did the fact that she had n't bothered to think about the call-box signal . |
| 25 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 26 | She had n't forgotten going to the pictures with Vernon to see The Song of Bernadette . |