Example sentences of "had not [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Donaldson emphasised the delay had not contributed in any way to the eventual death of the mechanic , William Donnelly . |
| 2 | The Hezbollah organization announced on June 30 that it would take part in the elections , although it had not participated in any government formed since the Taif accord . |
| 3 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 4 | Some barbarians had already received land from the king who issued the law , others had been endowed by his predecessors ; those who had not benefited in this way were to receive two-thirds of a property , one-third of the slaves and half the woodland . |
| 5 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |
| 6 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 7 | My thoughts had n't run in this way for years . |
| 8 | I had n't participated in any organization , but the experience of being a political prisoner soon changes your mind . |
| 9 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 10 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 11 | Yet most of the actors he 'd assembled had n't worked in that way before . |
| 12 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |