Example sentences of "had n't [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 2 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 3 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 4 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits . |
| 6 | Of course , she had n't bargained for a hurricane . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you had n't bargained for a will ? ’ |
| 8 | Damn the man , she had n't bargained for a Peeping Tom role ! |
| 9 | What would have happened if Septimus Taylor had n't appeared on the scene when he did ? |
| 10 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had been bored , perhaps he simply had n't believed in the danger . |
| 12 | They had n't moved with the times . |
| 13 | She had n't moved from the cockpit sole , but crouched there looking aft as if mesmerised by the towering storm front . |
| 14 | She had n't moved from the sofa and did n't look up when he pushed open the door . |
| 15 | Mariana had n't moved from the couch . |
| 16 | The curtains were drawn over the windows looking towards Regent 's Park and he had n't turned on the light . |
| 17 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 18 | And I so I , I went to the doctor just because I did n't go , had n't gone for a while |
| 19 | They had n't gone into a house as I 'd thought . |
| 20 | When she left school in 1927 she had n't gone into the sheds . |
| 21 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 22 | Well , he had n't gone with a stranger . |
| 23 | After she had told him , they had n't gone to the pictures for a month , so that he could see her home . |
| 24 | She could n't remember seeing such a cheerful crowd queuing for the cinema , and she took pleasure in their high spirits ; but she was glad that she had n't gone to the pictures . |
| 25 | And if he had n't gone after the runs for Gloucestershire , he 'd probably have tried his luck as a pro footballer . |
| 26 | Stephen 's mother had n't fallen from the cliff-path in a gust of wind : she had been pushed by Stephen 's father . |
| 27 | Although it had n't rained for a week , the path was slippery with mud , deadening sound . |
| 28 | She remembered he had n't stayed under the chains in Caer Wydyr a night and a day , as Fincara had meant . |
| 29 | A pity Simon had n't stayed in the kitchen . |
| 30 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |