Example sentences of "had not [verb] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 2 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 3 | Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory . |
| 4 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 5 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 6 | Well , you had n't got a great deal of money , now you would go for a walk out in Edinburgh , out to black Blackhole because Blackhole was a village . |