Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [vb pp] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 2 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 3 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 4 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 5 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 6 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 7 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 8 | Mrs Wilson had not thought him capable of either the guile or the imagination to make it up ; it had to be true . |
| 9 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 10 | She should have known , Robbie thought wearily , her story had n't moved him one iota . |
| 11 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 12 | His screen character was one of dunderheaded amiability , and Daine had n't given him enough self-awareness to adapt with the Dream . |
| 13 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 14 | But it had n't brought him any closer to her . |
| 15 | I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy . |
| 16 | The on-set problems of Freud led to Clift suing Universal , claiming they had n't paid him all of his $200,000 fee , and they counter-sued for nearly $700,000 . |