Example sentences of "had n't [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't complained about pain after that first night when she insisted on moving in and living with him permanently . |
| 2 | But she had n't complained about her dirty feet . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't planned on going back tonight . ’ |
| 4 | Well as I say I had n't , I had n't planned on going anywhere . |
| 5 | Charles had n't planned beyond finding out what he wanted to know and had to think quickly . |
| 6 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 7 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 8 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 9 | She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him . |
| 10 | Since his wife 's , Rachel 's , death he had n't joined in any of the social activities in Little Weirwold . |
| 11 | Do you think that realization had had s had n't surfaced until that ? |
| 12 | I suspect these things are genetic because my mother 's just had a hysterectomy , but I was lucky that the condition had n't developed into anything more serious . |
| 13 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 14 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 15 | By 9.15 Callahan and Ted still had n't showed at Jocko 's , and I 'd forgotten my webbed gloves . |
| 16 | And Ruth felt she had n't understood till now what it meant , to be Jake 's daughter ; she 'd never guessed that one day he would turn to her like this , calling her to understand all the past and set her own strength beside his . |
| 17 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps she was a touch stocky , but she had n't run to fat the way that most of them do . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish I had n't run after you ! |
| 20 | I had n't run against Ben that year and I was confident of beating Carl and him , because of the way I had been running . |
| 21 | My thoughts had n't run in this way for years . |
| 22 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 23 | When Katharine went for her lesson with Jennie , she had n't ridden since Christmas and was concerned that she would be very stiff and rusty . |
| 24 | I had n't ridden for three years . |
| 25 | I think it would n't have been so bad if he had n't swore at me so much , that was worse than hitting me . |
| 26 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 27 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 28 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 29 | Later during the trip I noticed that one morning the smell had n't registered with me . |
| 30 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |