Example sentences of "had not [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 2 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 3 | She had not asked me of my previous experiences . |
| 4 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 5 | I was a player in a drama written and cast by Jean-Claude , who had not rehearsed me for it . |
| 6 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |