Example sentences of "had n't [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 2 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 3 | But then she had n't packed with a hectic night-life in mind , had she ? |
| 4 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 5 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 6 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 7 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |
| 8 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 9 | She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word . |
| 10 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |