Example sentences of "had n't [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't coerced him in any way . |
| 2 | His words had n't affected me at all . |
| 3 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |
| 4 | ‘ It would n't have happened if that that cow had n't destroyed him in public . |
| 5 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 6 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 7 | The fire had n't touched them at all . ’ |
| 8 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 9 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 10 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 11 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 12 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 13 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 14 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 15 | ‘ But you had n't seen her on that occasion ? ’ |
| 16 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 17 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 18 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 19 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 20 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 21 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 22 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 23 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 24 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 25 | After all her husband is in Venice- and she had n't seen him in all the war years , ’ he said . |
| 26 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 27 | Missed me programme I had n't put it on this morning . |
| 28 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 29 | I had n't put it in straight . |
| 30 | The men had n't bothered her in any way . |