Example sentences of "we had [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 3 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 4 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 5 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 6 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 7 | We had not decided to purchase . |
| 8 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | If we had not given investors the chance to bid for Ballylumford and taken steps towards privatisation , that vital option would not have been made available to us . |
| 11 | In every case , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , if we had not done what we did but something else the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 12 | The vows we had made in the heat of our desire we had not kept . |
| 13 | A baby surely finds pleasure in being tickled without having first desired it , and we may similarly enjoy a sudden glow of warm sunshine on our back which we had not sought . |
| 14 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 15 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 16 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 17 | ‘ He said we had not made an official request . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This time we had not noticed any incumbent on the barn wall . |
| 20 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 21 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 22 | We had not seen another vehicle all day . |
| 23 | There was no level-crossing gate and we had not seen the rails , which were sunk deep into the tarmac , nor a red light winking on top of a very high pole . |
| 24 | We had not seen the Nile proper since Aswan , only the lake . |
| 25 | She was nearly hysterical , with some reason if what she said about the Germans was true , but we had not seen Anna . |
| 26 | My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years . |
| 27 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 28 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 29 | Then there was a noise we had not heard before . |
| 30 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |