Example sentences of "had n't come " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lift a man I had n't come across before spoke to me . |
| 2 | ‘ If you had n't come to us , we would have come to you , ’ the colonel receiving the journalists said . |
| 3 | He kept thinking of how his Mum and Dad would be when they found out he was n't back , that he had n't come home with either of them . |
| 4 | It had n't come undone . |
| 5 | So he had n't come back . |
| 6 | He had n't come out and she had n't been allowed in . |
| 7 | She wished very much she had n't come to ask it . |
| 8 | ‘ He seems to wish I had n't come , ’ he said , angling for support . |
| 9 | Like Freya , I knew something was wrong with me precisely because my periods had n't come back , and weirder still ( I thought ) , I wanted them to . |
| 10 | I had n't come to any grief by not having a comprehensive view of that crocodile pool , ignorance really was bliss that day ; but when it comes to organizing a major event , failure to see the overall picture from the start can blight the whole business . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think he would have died if you had n't come ? ’ |
| 13 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 14 | Her father had n't come back by one o'clock . |
| 15 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 16 | ‘ If the council houses had n't come , we 'd not have had electricity , water or the phone for all these years . ’ |
| 17 | And two more likely fellers that you 'd make Sergeant , I had n't come across . |
| 18 | If you had n't come in when you did … ’ |
| 19 | Then — ‘ And if they had n't come ? ’ the engineer said . |
| 20 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |
| 21 | When the poetry had n't come , the job too had seemed not only irksome but occasionally repellent . |
| 22 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 23 | So if Jimi had n't come along when he did , the guitar might not be half as popular an instrument as it is today . ’ |
| 24 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 25 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 26 | ‘ He thinks you 've nicked them , does n't he ? ’ said Mary , who had n't come in but stayed outside in Goblander . |
| 27 | And then , quite suddenly and unwished , the thought : ‘ Wish I had n't come back . ’ |
| 28 | It was seven o'clock , and he had n't come . |
| 29 | Make 'em wish they had n't come . |
| 30 | She wanted to hurt the man who had told her Rob had n't come back , but he had tried to be kind and anyway she could n't think clearly . |