Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact our paths had not even come close until we both went to Binbrook . |
| 2 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that example , which I had not previously come across . |
| 3 | Mr Gorbachev 's clear message was that the time had not yet come to abolish the party 's monopoly of power , but that it might well do so when a new political structure had been worked out , and the present economic crisis overcome . |
| 4 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 5 | The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis . |
| 6 | In practice , it was not the majority of the people who were to inherit power , but those who qualified by the ownership of property ; the ‘ people ’ had not yet come to include all inhabitants . |
| 7 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the end of the world had not yet come . |
| 9 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 10 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 11 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 12 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 13 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 14 | The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) . |
| 15 | But full autonomization and thus full cultural differentiation had not yet come to pass . |
| 16 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 17 | He went down to breakfast and was relieved to find that the Captain had not yet come down . |
| 18 | True , in a body wearied and weakened by sacrifices at Verdun , these diseases were to display a certain malignance the following year , but the time had not yet come . |
| 19 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 20 | Brenda had not long come to live in the country . |
| 21 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 22 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 23 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 24 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 25 | At least now she was beginning to get her focus back , even if her strength had n't yet come with it . |
| 26 | He had n't even come to rest . ’ |
| 27 | They themselves had been exploited for the purposes of exploitation and although they made a stab at the psychedelic scene , it had n't really come off . |
| 28 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |