Example sentences of "had n't make " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a $35,000 car — no wonder the owners had n't made the repayments — with computerised dash , booming hi-fi , and cruise control which meant the car would keep a fixed speed without a foot on the accelerator . |
| 2 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 3 | I said I thought Surkov felt resentful because the novels had n't made more money . |
| 4 | ‘ I was extremely unfair , uncharacteristically , to Mr Kinnock when I said he had n't made his position on PR absolutely plain , ’ said Mr Patten , warming up his audience . |
| 5 | It seems likely that , if Prince Charles had n't made it famous through his children 's book The Old Man of Lochnagar , nobody might have known that , by 1984 , only 13 trout survived in this highly acidified loch . |
| 6 | She swallowed hard , thankful she had n't made it to their house . |
| 7 | When your mother was Lorna Lewis , and still got called the last great blonde in Hollywood even if she had n't made a picture for ages , it was , worse than gross , it was a total bummer . |
| 8 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 9 | I still had n't made a clean take-off . |
| 10 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 11 | The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her . |
| 12 | Upper Gumtree 's trainer had n't made the journey from Australia , and nor had his usual jockey : Canadian substitutes had been found . |
| 13 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 14 | He had n't made a deliberate decision to keep her out of his private and professional life . |
| 15 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 16 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 17 | There was no one except herself to protect the poor children , and she had n't made much of a job of it . |
| 18 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 19 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 20 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 21 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 22 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 23 | If I had n't made it , I would n't have put it down to my colour . |
| 24 | Rutherford had n't made a note . |
| 25 | At that time it had n't made up its mind whether it was going to deliver an immediate response to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation 10 announcement — and ship systems later on in the year — or make a big splash in the Autumn with deliveries pretty much straight after . |
| 26 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 27 | Assuming she had n't made the whole thing up . |
| 28 | She looked up to see that Belle had n't made it : her legs were dangling into the corridor . |
| 29 | Only after they were built did the Manager of Shawcraft ask me why I had n't made the base more cone-shaped . |
| 30 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |