Example sentences of "had not [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had not reckoned with Lord Robertson . |
| 2 | The college registrar said Mrs Roberts had not kept in touch with the college and Dr Tull died in 1968 . |
| 3 | The greetings were warm and elaborate , like those of old friends who had not met for years . |
| 4 | Opposition leaders from the Islamic Renaissance Party and the chair of the Tajik Democratic Party , Shodmon Yusupov , denied that Tajikistan was a democratic state , as Nabiyev had assured Baker , and regretted that Baker had not met with opposition parties . |
| 5 | If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet . |
| 6 | He said the company had not called on shareholders for funds since 1985 and had spent recent years chasing funds to build up income producing assets . |
| 7 | Emily had not called on Aunt Sophie recently , she was n't in the mood for visiting nor for the lecture her aunt would surely give her on humiliating the family by openly selling her possessions . |
| 8 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 9 | I had not engaged in speech-making , public address or political activity of any kind at any stage in my life . |
| 10 | And then he did something else he had not done for decades , in fact since he was a boy in his beloved Poland . |
| 11 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 12 | In answer I did something I had not done in years . |
| 13 | She called her affirmatives and gasped , clutching him tight as she had not done in years . |
| 14 | He had not prayed for Ann Maguire . |
| 15 | When he had dismounted , he broke me a piece , though I had not complained of hunger . |
| 16 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 17 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 18 | The French troops had not stopped in Frasnes , but were marching doggedly on towards Sharpe who supposed that their orders were to seize the crossroads at Quatre Bras before nightfall . |
| 19 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 20 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 21 | I took strong objection to this , pointing out that I had not volunteered for membership , or invited membership , but had been asked to join by the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position . |
| 23 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 24 | The context was an action in the Norwegian court to set aside a retrospective tax assessment which had been raised by the Norwegian tax authorities against the estate of a deceased taxpayer who , it was alleged , was the beneficial owner of the assets which he had not declared for tax purposes . |
| 25 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 26 | The other two men were taller , one lanky , with slow flapping hands as he walked — ; Miranda guessed he had not lived in London long . |
| 27 | On 11 November 1991 , Mr. Registrar Pimm , pursuant to a petition presented on 1 February 1991 , made a bankruptcy order against the debtor , although the debtor had not lived in England and Wales since 8 May 1987 , on the basis that she was still notionally carrying on business in England and Wales within the meaning of section 265(1) ( c ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 because though there were no other debts outstanding there was an unpaid tax liability of over £500,000 . |
| 28 | The very fact that he held the parliamentarians partially responsible for the RPF 's demise suggests that he had not assumed in June 1951 that the Rassemblement was dead . |
| 29 | Helmut had not heard of M. Lévy . |
| 30 | I was told by a Milanese , with a wry smile , that it was as well the prophet had not heard of smog , or that would have been included as well . |