Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 2 | As I read that decision , it was held that she had not made them fixtures . |
| 3 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 4 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 5 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 6 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 7 | My stay in Government had not made me less radical but more so . |
| 8 | I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier . |
| 9 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 10 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 11 | The Conservative administration had not made it good , said Borrie ; government had not created either the demand or the supply of credit . |
| 12 | His remark , delivered , in a weary , satirical voice , had made me notice at once how young he was , though I would have noticed soon enough , I suppose , even if he had not made it . |
| 13 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 14 | This was a separate transaction from the auction and the auctioneers had not made it clear that the exemption clause was being incorporated into it . |
| 15 | The court held that the covering letter had not made it clear that the seller was intending to contract on his own terms and conditions , and that he had merely mentioned the offer by way of reference for its main terms ( eg quoted price and delivery ) . |
| 16 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 17 | Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . |
| 18 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 19 | In addition to the non-literary sources cited above , there is rather strong evidence in Shakespeare and Marlowe — especially in puns of the type air , heir , hair — that [ h ] -dropping was salient in the speech community : clearly , the puns could not have worked if the ‘ groundlings ’ had not recognized them ( see , for example , Comedy of Errors , III.ii.122–3 ; Dido and Aeneas , I.i.10 ) . |
| 20 | He had not kissed her or looked back , just sprinted across the snow . |
| 21 | He could have gone on , recklessly , but he was unwilling to reach a consummation where she shared any abandon with him ; he had not forgiven her . |
| 22 | But at her door he was told he could not see her , and he realized she had not forgiven him . |
| 23 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 24 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 25 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 26 | Mrs Scutt , being an old hospital bird , had no difficulty in translating Robins ' euphemistic message , or in placing Charlie , though she had not met him before . |
| 27 | He knew what she would be doing and why she had not called him . |
| 28 | Det Supt Michael Hames , head of Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publica-tions branch , said if the film-makers had not called it ‘ educational ’ , then it would have been blatant pornography . |
| 29 | He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place . |
| 30 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |