Example sentences of "had n't [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 2 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you had n't bargained for a will ? ’ |
| 4 | Of course , she had n't bargained for a hurricane . |
| 5 | Damn the man , she had n't bargained for a Peeping Tom role ! |
| 6 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
| 7 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 8 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 9 | And I so I , I went to the doctor just because I did n't go , had n't gone for a while |
| 10 | Although it had n't rained for a week , the path was slippery with mud , deadening sound . |
| 11 | So far they had n't applied for a search warrant to go over the boat , but Maurice did n't care if they did . |
| 12 | Then Sutton , says he , got narked and asked Pilger why he had n't applied for the editor 's job himself . |
| 13 | While we had n't asked for a film sample it 's worth knowing that all bureau should be able to offer this service — it can save time and money at the printing end . |
| 14 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 15 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |
| 16 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 17 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 18 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 19 | But Anwar had n't catered for the fact that Changez had mastered the supreme art of sleeping sitting up . |
| 20 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 21 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 22 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 23 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 24 | If she had n't known for a fact that he liked nothing about her she might have mistaken that note in his voice for admiration . |