Example sentences of "had not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Like most of the ARC crews , the Twists had not sailed across the Atlantic before and they viewed the prospect with some trepidation . |
| 4 | But they had not reckoned with Lord Robertson . |
| 5 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 6 | In brief , it would seem that Anselm , like many reformers , had not reckoned with the solid weight of inertia on most matters , and positive dissent on others . |
| 7 | They had not reckoned with the mentality of CPP officials , used to exercising unchallenged authority in a one-party state . |
| 8 | He had not reckoned with the fact that the second charge of canister could not be fired . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 11 | As Tower Hamlets had not consented to the proposed user Chetnik were prohibited during the material period from allowing the warehouses to be occupied . |
| 12 | It was held that volenti did not apply on these facts as the plaintiff had not consented to or absolved the defendant from subsequent negligence on his part . |
| 13 | The process would have been entirely pleasant , if the puzzling implication had not lingered in her mind throughout , like a dark shadow without a substance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Apart from their undoubted strengths in these matters , the Germans have also been motivated by the belief that Germany 's ( and Europe 's ) disunity was an unnatural state which had not existed in the past . |
| 16 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 17 | The college registrar said Mrs Roberts had not kept in touch with the college and Dr Tull died in 1968 . |
| 18 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 19 | In 1763 the Cours des Aides , one of the chief legal and financial institutions of the monarchy , asked for the convocation of the States-General ( a national representative body , organized by social orders , which had originated in the later Middle Ages and had not met since 1614 ) . |
| 20 | The greetings were warm and elaborate , like those of old friends who had not met for years . |
| 21 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 22 | Opposition leaders from the Islamic Renaissance Party and the chair of the Tajik Democratic Party , Shodmon Yusupov , denied that Tajikistan was a democratic state , as Nabiyev had assured Baker , and regretted that Baker had not met with opposition parties . |
| 23 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 24 | She shook hands with Sarah , whom she had not met until this afternoon , saying , ‘ It 's been ever so nice talking to you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 25 | But Jaroslav Rona , a member of a group of prominent artists , says : ‘ If intellectual groups had not met in the cafes , nothing would have happened . |
| 26 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 27 | If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet . |
| 28 | Bush polled 88 per cent of the vote compared with 2 per cent for Buchanan ( who had not campaigned in the state ) and 17 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 29 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 30 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |