Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 2 | Their minds had not reached out to the terror of what had in fact happened . |
| 3 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 4 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 5 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 6 | Elisabeth had not walked over to the Villa with the other guests , but lagged behind . |
| 7 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |