Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the originating summons was served upon the mother the father had not made her aware of his intention to ‘ go back ’ upon his letter of 23 September 1991 in which he had said that he did not intend to seek to have the children returned to Australia . |
| 2 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 3 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier . |
| 6 | Their Lordships are satisfied with the course taken by the trial judge and are further satisfied that the adverse effect on the jury from the defendant 's point of view was in the end no greater than it would have been if counsel had not made his improper observation . |
| 7 | The Conservative administration had not made it good , said Borrie ; government had not created either the demand or the supply of credit . |
| 8 | This was a separate transaction from the auction and the auctioneers had not made it clear that the exemption clause was being incorporated into it . |
| 9 | The court held that the covering letter had not made it clear that the seller was intending to contract on his own terms and conditions , and that he had merely mentioned the offer by way of reference for its main terms ( eg quoted price and delivery ) . |
| 10 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 11 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 12 | Presumably , Mr. Tylee considered these had not outlived their useful life and if he kept them long enough , a buyer might come along . |
| 13 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 14 | Armenia had not created its own armed forces , and all those fighting in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict were volunteers . |
| 15 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 16 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 17 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 18 | In the end Flimnap realized that his wife was not in love with me , and had not done anything wrong , but he was still angry with me . |
| 19 | Afterwards he decided that his intense preoccupation with politics and the Liberal Party had not represented his true conviction . |
| 20 | She had been forced to admit to herself that Liza had not inherited her own fortitude and patience , which had helped her to nurse her future husband back to relative health in a Kent hospital after he had been wounded in the leg during the battle of Arras in 1918 . |
| 21 | She had not acknowledged his cheerful greeting that morning , but had , nevertheless , put the dinner invitation safely away in her bag . |
| 22 | It occurred to him that he had not worn his best clothes for many weeks ; not since that confusing afternoon when some of Buddie 's friends had rushed through the house carrying boxes , cases and sacks that must not be discovered when the police came to search the place . |
| 23 | He had not checked them all personally . |
| 24 | Ken 's reply was that , if His Majesty had not neglected his own duty of being present , his enemies would have missed this opportunity of accusing him . |
| 25 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 26 | She had not achieved her present status purely through luck and application . |
| 27 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 28 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 29 | In the mist Giles had not noticed anything strange about the map . |
| 30 | He had not asked her one question , had not given her one chance to explain . |