Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 2 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 3 | Like most of the ARC crews , the Twists had not sailed across the Atlantic before and they viewed the prospect with some trepidation . |
| 4 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 5 | In brief , it would seem that Anselm , like many reformers , had not reckoned with the solid weight of inertia on most matters , and positive dissent on others . |
| 6 | They had not reckoned with the mentality of CPP officials , used to exercising unchallenged authority in a one-party state . |
| 7 | He had not reckoned with the fact that the second charge of canister could not be fired . |
| 8 | Although this seemed a wise decision at the time , it was anything but wise in the long run , as we had not reckoned on the dramatic rise in house prices . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 10 | As Tower Hamlets had not consented to the proposed user Chetnik were prohibited during the material period from allowing the warehouses to be occupied . |
| 11 | Apart from their undoubted strengths in these matters , the Germans have also been motivated by the belief that Germany 's ( and Europe 's ) disunity was an unnatural state which had not existed in the past . |
| 12 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 13 | But Jaroslav Rona , a member of a group of prominent artists , says : ‘ If intellectual groups had not met in the cafes , nothing would have happened . |
| 14 | Bush polled 88 per cent of the vote compared with 2 per cent for Buchanan ( who had not campaigned in the state ) and 17 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 15 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 17 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 18 | The Confait Case ( 1977 ) illustrated how innocent suspects could be pressurised into confessing to something they had not done in the face of sophisticated techniques of interrogation and rather less sophisticated threats . |
| 19 | He also became very defensive and threatened human visitors in a way that he had not done before the young were born . |
| 20 | Rain wished for her sake that the cup had not rattled in the saucer . |
| 21 | What if Christ had not risen from the dead , and religion was mere hocus-pocus ? |
| 22 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 23 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 24 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 25 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 26 | After all , exploitation had not stopped with the theft of the gold . |
| 27 | But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent . |
| 28 | Otto 's wife Caroline , for instance , was alleged to be Edgar Lintot 's cousin , though this had not emerged in the days when Liz Ablewhite had been briefly married to Edgar Lintot . |
| 29 | The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said hesitantly , wishing that now she had not commented on the book , for one did not talk about poetry with chance acquaintances . |