Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most Germans it was bewildering that they should suffer such losses at the hands of a country that had not existed for over 100 years . |
| 2 | The greetings were warm and elaborate , like those of old friends who had not met for years . |
| 3 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 4 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 5 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 6 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 7 | And then he did something else he had not done for decades , in fact since he was a boy in his beloved Poland . |
| 8 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 9 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 10 | He had not prayed for Ann Maguire . |
| 11 | I had not prayed for so long I did n't know what to say . |
| 12 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 13 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |
| 14 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 15 | Bertrand Gachot had not raced for over a year , but his relative inexperience did not show as he began to attack Suzuki 's Lola in the race 's later stages . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I took strong objection to this , pointing out that I had not volunteered for membership , or invited membership , but had been asked to join by the Secretary of State . |
| 18 | The context was an action in the Norwegian court to set aside a retrospective tax assessment which had been raised by the Norwegian tax authorities against the estate of a deceased taxpayer who , it was alleged , was the beneficial owner of the assets which he had not declared for tax purposes . |
| 19 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 20 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 21 | He had not moved for four , maybe five , hours . |
| 22 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 23 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 24 | A sensation she had not felt for months — of muted excitement and expectation — went through her . |
| 25 | It had not rained for a week and the white dust of the road started to dull the shine of all the shoes . |
| 26 | It had not rained for months . |
| 27 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 28 | They had not eaten for nearly two days . |
| 29 | Sally-Anne sat down , and began to eat the bread and butter , home-made scones and Victoria sponge cake as though she had not eaten for weeks . |
| 30 | He was proud that he , and others like him , had not fallen for the con-trick . |