Example sentences of "be not [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’
2 It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff .
3 They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner .
4 People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave .
5 Patients were not included if they had required corticosteroid treatment for active disease after their most recent resection .
6 This is not to deny that they had enemies .
7 This is not to deny that they had enemies .
8 The Greek authorities made no effort , indeed it is not known whether they had the legal authority , to allow the post mortem examination to take place before the body was released , despite the scarcity of important evidence in a case of this kind .
9 It is not known whether they had any children .
10 Holly sweating , Holly who was not trained and who had laid the envelope given him by Alan Millet on the top of the wire rubbish basket beside the bench on the Lenin hills .
11 But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure .
12 Burton was not told that he had been superseded , and it was not until February 1856 that he sent in his fee account , which was received by the Treasury ‘ with great surprise ’ .
13 The music , although still loud , was not blaring and someone had even made sandwiches , which were being passed around along with a cider and vodka mixture .
14 Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected .
15 She said Mr Khamenei was hit but it was not known if he had died .
16 He was not released until he had been forced to sign an undertaking not to bring any charge against his aggressors .
17 ‘ Even today I was n't presuming that I had been chosen . ’
18 The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible .
19 He had n't read the script , was n't acting as she had envisaged .
20 Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ?
21 Cameras went wrong , George 's microphone was n't working and we had to start the show again , a light exploded .
22 The windscreen de-mister was n't working and he had to strain to see .
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