Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 2 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 3 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 4 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 5 | Justice Department and CIA officials had made mistakes in how they had handled certain classified information concerning BNL loans , a series of errors which Lacey characterized as " a fiasco " , but they had not engaged in any criminal wrongdoing . |
| 6 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 7 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 8 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 9 | Jeffrey , who had been the youngest MP , but not for long , and the deputy chairman of the Party for a little while , considered that he had not done at all badly . |
| 10 | She was not a good artist and she was wearing company , but she must have some redeeming qualities , although Madeleine Corley and her companions at Tourettes sur Loup had not hinted at any . |
| 11 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 12 | Mr Donaldson emphasised the delay had not contributed in any way to the eventual death of the mechanic , William Donnelly . |
| 13 | Zeinab had not heard about this . |
| 14 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 15 | Even in prison he had not felt like this . |
| 16 | The hotel had not participated in any formal training scheme , nor accepted industrial release students , nor recruited graduates : the previous General Manager having held the view that the only worthwhile training was a lengthy apprenticeship within the industry . |
| 17 | The Hezbollah organization announced on June 30 that it would take part in the elections , although it had not participated in any government formed since the Taif accord . |
| 18 | With time running out , it was crucial that Leeds at least regained the leadership by taking a minimum of one point from a Manchester City team who had not scored in any of their previous four outings . |
| 19 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 20 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 21 | However , now councillors are being urged to give tenants permission to keep pets on a permanent basis , without having to apply annually.The matter will be discussed by the council 's housing services sub-committee on Tuesday.The meeting will be told the council 's pets policy had not run into any difficulties over the past two years . |
| 22 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 23 | However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt . |
| 24 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 25 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 26 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 27 | She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did . |
| 28 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 29 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 30 | Even she had not bargained for such an insult as this ! |