Example sentences of "it had n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't occurred to me that Sarah and John might not be alone , but here , now , I would have to be introduced and explained away somehow . |
| 2 | She was sure they did n't really like her , it had n't occurred to her that she might be off-putting . |
| 3 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 6 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 7 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 8 | It had n't been an unusual day . |
| 9 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 10 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 11 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 12 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 13 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 14 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 15 | sparkling and looked like it had n't been touched , and I could n't believe it . |
| 16 | But it had n't sounded like the milkman somehow . |
| 17 | It had n't come undone . |
| 18 | It had n't a chance . |
| 19 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 20 | He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it had n't helped much . |
| 21 | But it had n't been her lucky day after all . |
| 22 | This was his first visit since his call-up and it had n't changed at all . |
| 23 | It had n't the same effect that Charles might have produced . |
| 24 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 25 | It had n't been fair to hurl it at her . |
| 26 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 27 | It had n't exactly been a poignant reunion . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 30 | The black tip of that arrow was scarlet with blood , but I reckoned it had n't gone in further than a rib or my spine . |