Example sentences of "he had [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not easily shaken Claudine off — not that he had tried — and his arm around the girl 's waist had irritated Jenna unbelievably . |
| 2 | Paul stared dreamily at the stables , the horses , and the grooms and coachmen busily rubbing them down ; and compared reason with romance , phenomenology — a word he had not previously heard used — with the behaviourism of the mind as he knew it . |
| 3 | He became fag to his cousin , Robert Bridges , whom he had not previously met . |
| 4 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 5 | This would not have been so impressive if he had not previously said — for I was also with him at Murphy Radio before the war — ‘ Some people have to work , but some can run barefoot across the grass ! ’ |
| 6 | After she had gone Paul made himself known to Dr Heatherton , to whom he had not previously addressed himself ; was rewarded by a few courteous words and good wishes for his progress ; and then went home . |
| 7 | It did not come as a startling revelation — no blinding flash of illumination , only a possibility that he had not previously considered , something that was worth checking . |
| 8 | He had not paid enough attention to Anna , he had not even seen the girl , and yet she was the only one to benefit obviously and directly from her father dying when he did . |
| 9 | I recorded all this on audio cassette ; when the session was over , I played the tape to the astonished Clive who had been so relaxed when hypnotized that he had not even realized that his stammer had temporarily disappeared . |
| 10 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 11 | He had not even dug |
| 12 | So far he had not even registered her presence , and she was in no particular hurry to enlighten him . |
| 13 | But he had not even caught a glimpse of a young girl . |
| 14 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 15 | He had not even had a full season in the First Division . |
| 16 | Pumfrey reflected comfortably that it was an indication of Bill Muggeridge 's general dimness that he had not even had to set a trap for him . |
| 17 | He had not even looked towards her again . |
| 18 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 19 | He had been in the city for three weeks now and he had not even started to do what he had come here for . |
| 20 | Lexandro snatched his hand away — as though he had not even known that he had gripped his neighbour . |
| 21 | He had not even taken his anorak off . |
| 22 | The third servant simply buried the funds entrusted to him in a hole in the ground for safekeeping and was condemned for his worthlessness because he had not even taken the ( virtually riskless ) alternative of leaving the money on deposit with the bankers . |
| 23 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 24 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 25 | And he said he had not yet received a letter sent by Dr Roger Vaughan , chairman and chief executive of Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside . |
| 26 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 27 | But he had not yet formed any firm friendships . |
| 28 | This " veteran assault force " ( as he called it ) was composed of the only men left from the cantonment community whom he had not yet made use of , the few elderly gentlemen who had managed to survive the rigours of the siege . |
| 29 | Ranged with his mother , his sisters , he was cowed ; he felt , not just some months ' Tommaso 's junior , but a child again , like his little brother Franco , also quiet and busy with his food , as if he had not yet made that transition from the mother 's arms to the father 's side that should duly occur at thirteen . |
| 30 | He had not yet made up his mind whether he would speak in Thursday 's debate on immigration . |