Example sentences of "had not [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not wanted her to be here any more than she 'd wanted to come . |
| 2 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 3 | He ridiculed the ceremonies in impeccable prose , and disparaged the British Minister and his family , who had not invited him to lunch . |
| 4 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 5 | Alain had not allowed her to be where he would have to talk to her . |
| 6 | I wondered why Jean-Claude had not mentioned it to him . |
| 7 | Since he had not delivered it to his customer ( M ) he had ‘ continued ’ in possession ( albeit wrongfully ) . |
| 8 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 9 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
| 10 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 11 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 12 | He had not expected it to be so beautiful . |
| 13 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 14 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |