Example sentences of "had not [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed unnecessary , for Miss Logan had not a word of Turk or Russo or Kurdish or whatever mixture it was the other two communicated in ; but she did as she was told . |
| 2 | It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record . |
| 3 | If she did , he did n't know what he would do ; he had not a shred of evidence . |
| 4 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 5 | In fact though , as Lenin said , populism had not a grain of socialism in it . |
| 6 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 7 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 8 | Five little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious yum , yum , yum , what have they |
| 9 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 10 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 11 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 12 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 13 | I know that his intervention was well meant and had not a whit of political mischief about it . |
| 14 | In Couldery v. Bartrum ( 1881 ) 19 Ch.D. 394 at 400 , Jessel M.R. , discussing the rule in Pinnel 's Case and compositions with creditors , said ’ … as every debtor had not a stock of canary birds , or tomtits , or rubbish of that kind , to add to his dividend , it was felt desirable to bind the creditors in a sensible way by saying that , if they all agreed , there should be a consideration imported from the agreement constituting an addition to the dividend , so as to make the agreement no longer nudum pactum , but an agreement made for valuable consideration , then there would be satisfaction . |
| 15 | They left the bar , Bodo exchanging farewells as if he had not a care in the world . |
| 16 | In those days we had not a care in the world , the only thing that counted was the game in which we were playing . |
| 17 | She was absorbed in the feminine ritual of drying her hair , as though there were no danger in their situation , as though she had not a care in the world . |
| 18 | If we had not a right to the kingdom , we were mere mercenary soldiers . |
| 19 | And had not a pupil of the Arden Convent school complained that he had pinched her bottom while conducting a group of girls on a tour round the Palace of Westminster ? |
| 20 | He had not a quiver of anxiety over the business of the letters . |
| 21 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 22 | Perhaps Lucy would have melted weakly into his bony arms had not an expression of dismay and incredulity come over his face . |
| 23 | And yet she had not the look of a woman cramped or dissatisfied . |
| 24 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 25 | In fact , he would have elbowed the ‘ Jottings ’ long ago had not the Chairman of his Board reminded him that Nye Bevan had once found them ‘ bloody civilized ’ . |
| 26 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 27 | All of these ideas — and there are countless other examples — have advanced the course of science considerably : who knows where our science and scientific theory would be now had not the monolith of scientific orthodoxy stood for so long in their way ? |
| 28 | However , although the University College had not the prestige of the University it became , we had our celebrities . |
| 29 | Leith again came close to physically lashing out at him , and might well have , she realised , had not the object of her aim moved forward to the bed . |
| 30 | Had not the echo of my prayer been upon me still , I should not have been ready . |