Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 2 | He could not help wondering why a rousing cheer had not gone up as soon as the garrison had spotted his red uniform . |
| 3 | I had not worked before as a waitress so I ended up with most of the easy jobs like washing up and cleaning left overs from the plates ! |
| 4 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have been interested in Porter if Michael had not come through as he has , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 7 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |