Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative administration had not made it good , said Borrie ; government had not created either the demand or the supply of credit . |
| 2 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 3 | If they had not exercised precisely the sort of power which is the distinguishing mark of a class , Bonapartism would never have arisen . |
| 4 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 5 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 6 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 7 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 8 | She had not seen where the night light came from . |
| 9 | Now they were all busily employed in setting to rights the big front saloon — a difficult task , for all its furniture was large and heavy and the carpets had not seen even a brush for years and years . |
| 10 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 11 | She had not slept much the night before ; she was worried , and she was curious about her tenants . |
| 12 | In cases where the respondent is a non-governmental body , it may be possible to ask whether there is evidence that if the respondent had not taken on the function in question , the government would have . |
| 13 | Blanche could imagine her weeping with her son over his confession but , like Marek , she was a little puzzled that Tatyana had not shown even a spark of joy at the revenge he had taken . |
| 14 | He had not washed merely a handkerchief either his underclothes , too , had a grey look , and so did his shirt , whose grey cuffs peeped from beneath the dirty , tattered sleeves of his morning coat . |
| 15 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 16 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 17 | CHERYL had not looked forward a bit to her holiday . |
| 18 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 19 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 20 | Mrs Gordon ( 61 ) who lives in Kingshurst , West Midlands , and now works at a nursing home , admitted in an official statement released by solicitor Steven Jonas that she had not carried out a smear test before joining Dr Kumar 's practice , but claimed she followed a technique he taught her . |
| 21 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 22 | Yet that would not have been enough if President Bush had not thrown away the election and the keys to the White House with it . |
| 23 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 24 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 25 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 26 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 27 | Peter lashed out at his brother , missed , stumbled and would have fallen if Marc had n't shot out a hand to stop him . |
| 28 | The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’ |
| 29 | If he had n't jumped then the car would have hit him . |
| 30 | Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it ! |