Example sentences of "had not [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 2 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 3 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 4 | But she had not bargained for a complete refusal to attend . |
| 5 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 6 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 7 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 8 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |