Example sentences of "had not [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 4 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 5 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 6 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 7 | Mr Donaldson emphasised the delay had not contributed in any way to the eventual death of the mechanic , William Donnelly . |
| 8 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 11 | However , now councillors are being urged to give tenants permission to keep pets on a permanent basis , without having to apply annually.The matter will be discussed by the council 's housing services sub-committee on Tuesday.The meeting will be told the council 's pets policy had not run into any difficulties over the past two years . |
| 12 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 13 | However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt . |
| 14 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 15 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 16 | She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did . |
| 17 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 18 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 19 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 20 | However , the shapechangers had not travelled to this planet in a space hopper . |
| 21 | Still the previous spills of asbestos in the factory had not led to any action by the workers . |
| 22 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 23 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 24 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 25 | The judge ordered on an action by the plaintiffs , Waltham Forest London Borough Council , that they should recover possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road , Walthamstow , London , E.17 , on the ground that the defendant did not qualify to succeed within section 87 of the Housing Act 1985 the tenant , Webster Thomas , the defendant 's brother who had died while a secure tenant of the premises as the defendant had not resided at those premises for a period of 12 months ending with his brother 's death . |
| 26 | He was too far off to be sure , the foreign face which maybe had not aged by another line , the gelid eyes , invisible . |
| 27 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 30 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |