Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jimmy , who had n't said a word , suddenly said , ‘ You know , Leslie , you 've been a bit of a bastard , have n't you … |
| 2 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 3 | Joe , who had n't stopped to put anything on , was wearing only his long pants , his chest and feet bare . |
| 4 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 5 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 6 | Claudia , with her made-up face and her bad language in the hunting field , a powerful image which overwhelmed the memory of the frail Irish girl who had n't survived his birth . |
| 7 | A spoon flew , Gavin ducked ; it hit the lad behind him , who had n't kept his eyes and ears open , and splashed into the soup pot . |
| 8 | I was the only one who had n't understood . |
| 9 | ‘ I came across families who had n't eaten for four days . |
| 10 | And now would you believe it 's the other Notts player who had n't scored this season , has been desperate for a goal , Paul . |
| 11 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 12 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
| 13 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 14 | Jean , who had n't wept since the death of Humphrey Bogart , laughed a great deal and was good-tempered and drunk . |
| 15 | These implied that one of her younger brothers , an immature boy who had n't reached puberty , had been sexually abusing both herself and a younger sister . |
| 16 | Who had n't heard of the Counterweight Continent ? |
| 17 | Some parents who had n't heard the news brought their children to school as normal only to be turned away . |
| 18 | He was , incidentally , the only applicant who had n't named the drink St Clements , from the nursery rhyme . |
| 19 | Poor Gloria who had n't had breakfast . |
| 20 | There was n't a man watching , or a woman , who had n't had an eye on him in admiration . |
| 21 | Now Bubble , who had n't had much time to reflect on his England-experience , was obviously starting to think over his position . |
| 22 | He did n't exactly look like someone who had n't had any sleep . |
| 23 | She thought of other happenings since she had arrived in Czechoslovakia , and concentrated her thoughts on Lubor — who had n't found her clinging enough . |
| 24 | ‘ Noriega looked like a man who had n't slept for 20 days , ’ said Mr Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 25 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 26 | His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him . |
| 27 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 28 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 29 | But I was the only one who had n't taken the blues . |
| 30 | ‘ I must get back , ’ she told Florian , who had n't looked up . |