Example sentences of "had not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 4 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even she had not bargained for such an insult as this ! |
| 11 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 12 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 13 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 14 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 15 | She had not seen beyond the violence : she had not planned for any other outcome . |
| 16 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 17 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 18 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 19 | He had n't bargained for this . |
| 20 | He had n't appeared for this scene : none of the actors had . |
| 21 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 22 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 23 | You had n't spoken for some time . |
| 24 | She had the impression that she had n't smiled for several months . |