Example sentences of "it had n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 2 | Although it had n't rained for a week , the path was slippery with mud , deadening sound . |
| 3 | It seemed typical of Wickrithe , to produce a fog on the only day this week it had n't rained . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , if it had n't rained so hard , I 'd have won two hundred pounds easily , my love , ’ Troy was saying . |
| 5 | It had n't rained , and her bicycle was still where she 'd left it — again — by the fence . |
| 6 | If it had n't rained the night before the car was burnt , there could have been a major forest fire . |
| 7 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 8 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 9 | It had n't stopped her putting on make-up , though , just a touch of eyeshadow and mascara , and a tiny puff of perfume at the base of her throat . |
| 10 | and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything . |
| 11 | At least it had n't created uproar . |
| 12 | Pike based his appeal on the contention that he had fed the horse properly but it had n't absorbed it . |
| 13 | There had been genuine fear on some of those people 's faces when she had mentioned Martin 's name , a fear she could appreciate after what had happened to her last night , but it had n't shaken her determination to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 14 | It had n't assumed the full importance it later would in my life , though I already liked the place and felt at home in its coolness and dark . |
| 15 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 16 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 17 | The electric drill had not yet been invented or if it had , it had n't reached Scotland , and Hector bored holes in teeth with a fearsome foot-operated machine . |
| 18 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |
| 19 | It had n't reached them . |
| 20 | It had n't pleased him but he acknowledged it . |
| 21 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 22 | At that time it had n't made up its mind whether it was going to deliver an immediate response to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation 10 announcement — and ship systems later on in the year — or make a big splash in the Autumn with deliveries pretty much straight after . |
| 23 | It had n't made any difference . |
| 24 | I said Pete what are you talking about , you do n't know what my hair looks like , you know , thick or thin , it did n't er well it had n't made any difference at all basically , and he was agreeing , and everything you say he agrees . |
| 25 | It had n't crossed my mind , but I was grateful now that I 'd been too busy throwing up to examine the body too closely . |
| 26 | He reckoned the machine had swallowed his card , cos , he said , he 'd got his money and then waited for it to come out but it had n't appeared . |
| 27 | But it had n't sounded like the milkman somehow . |
| 28 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 29 | Perhaps it had n't turned out well , and he 'd been blamed . |
| 30 | It had n't moved . |