Example sentences of "had n't [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 2 | The fall had n't affected her in the slightest , but the shock of finding herself lying beneath Dane stunned her into silence . |
| 3 | The old gag had n't fooled them for a minute . |
| 4 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 5 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 6 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 7 | He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself . |
| 8 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 9 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 10 | Daak 's aerobatics had n't shaken it off the shuttle . |
| 11 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 12 | Mr Hunter had n't struck her as a man who would easily admit he was wrong . |
| 13 | If the NEA had n't said anything about the Mapplethorpe show , nobody would really have complained . |
| 14 | Kenneth was a little surprised that Hamish had n't said anything about the factory being in such dire straits , but then his brother did seem to put the church and the factory above family and friends . |
| 15 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 16 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 17 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 18 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 19 | Anyway , erm we went to the Ca Polly had n't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there 's a shirt you want for Robert there . |
| 20 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 21 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 22 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 23 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 24 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 25 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 26 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 27 | The smell of the plates of food as they were borne past had been tantalising and caused pangs of hunger to strike Meredith 's stomach as though she had n't eaten anything for a week . |
| 28 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 29 | They would of if you had n't put them in a boil wash |
| 30 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |