Example sentences of "had not [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 2 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 3 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 4 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 5 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 6 | She had not realised it until now . |
| 7 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 8 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 9 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 10 | I had not seen it before taking a look at the February/March issue . |
| 11 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 12 | Zenith knew of the existence of Acme 's program but had not seen it in use — no infringement of copyright , the function of the program is idea , not expression . |
| 13 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 14 | The local Italian paper Il Piccolo was full of praise for Mussolini , pointing out that Italy would have lost Trieste to the Slavs if Mussolini had not reconquered it in La Rivoluzione Fascista . |
| 15 | She had not had it with her on Sunday during the walk to the belvedere and although it might now be too late in the day to catch the best of the light , it would be useful to have a few shots to help with descriptions of the scenery when she came to write her novel . |
| 16 | I find it in the unlikeliest places , many of which had not sold it for at least 25 years . |
| 17 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 18 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective . |
| 21 | It was held that he had not used it within s.12(1) . |
| 22 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 23 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 24 | They now claim a 1% reduction in this disease , compared with an estimated increase of 1.5% if they had not stuck it in their selection index ( see page 49 ) . |
| 25 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 26 | He was , indeed , following in the line of Hooker and Andrewes , but Andrewes , though himself favouring ritual , had not enforced it on others . |
| 27 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 28 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 29 | I wondered why Jean-Claude had not mentioned it to him . |
| 30 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |