Example sentences of "[pron] had not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 2 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 3 | I had not yet decided whether her eyes were grey or hazel . |
| 4 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 5 | I had not yet escaped the strangeness of being with people who , over the years , had become largely fictional to me . |
| 6 | He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’ |
| 7 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 8 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 9 | I had not yet told Margaret it was from Bill . |
| 10 | I had not yet learnt that a German is not necessarily angry because he is shouting , and so was surprised when he added in a gentle cooing voice : |
| 11 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 12 | It was not as good as I should have wished , partly because I was in a hurry , but also partly because I had not yet learnt — if I was ever to master — the technique of literary criticism . |
| 13 | I had not yet recovered from the simple shock of finding that many of them talked and behaved exactly like us . |
| 14 | It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left . |
| 15 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 16 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 17 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 18 | There seemed to be something which I had not properly understood . |
| 19 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman has introduced me to sayings of his in the House today that I had not previously appreciated . |
| 21 | Despite the handicaps of age , gender and origin , I learnt a lot about a medium I had not previously considered . |
| 22 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that example , which I had not previously come across . |
| 23 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 24 | I did not like to ask ; I had not even liked to ask Leo . |
| 25 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 26 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 27 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 28 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 29 | Fool that I was , I had not even looked in the newspapers , let alone the stage journals … |
| 30 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |