Example sentences of "[adj] had n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely this had n't escaped the customer . |
| 2 | This had n't stopped him following the actual strategy , but Richmann was n't about to let anyone tell him how to do his job that was a matter of principle . |
| 3 | It was surprising , now he came to think of it , that this had n't scared him off , but he 'd been lulled by her flippancy . |
| 4 | A look at the estate map of 1634 gives a picture of the village as it was then , and it is probable that this had n't changed much from the previous centuries . |
| 5 | I would have rung if this had n't happened . |
| 6 | If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . |
| 7 | If this had n't happened … how many times do we think and feel and say those immortal words , a strange mantra that underscores the mystery of who and what and where we are in this mysterious world . |
| 8 | Enya : ‘ If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . ’ |
| 9 | Because if I do n't escape , if something dreadful happened , I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this had n't happened was not the person I now want to be . |
| 10 | I have chatted to people who I would n't ever have met if this had n't happened . |
| 11 | Aged from eighteen to eighty , some had n't rung a bell for almost fifty years , but everyone pulled their weight on this historic occasion . |
| 12 | by how much had n't changed . |
| 13 | Owner of most of Buckinghamshire , he refused to pay 20 shillings tax because Charles the 1st had n't consulted Parliament . |
| 14 | Many had n't understood a word she 'd been saying . |
| 15 | Many had n't travelled abroad before . |
| 16 | Despite the fund-raisers ' best efforts there was no disguising the fact that Telethon '92 had n't lived up to expectations . |
| 17 | There were clearly various possibilities which the Chinese had n't thought of . |
| 18 | That had n't cost a couple of pounds — it can cost a small fortune . |
| 19 | The installer had come highly recommended , but that had n't prevented him from installing our boiler without one ! |
| 20 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 21 | Margaret had accepted his story of taking urgent samples across to Belfast ; it was true , but that had n't meant she 'd believe it . |
| 22 | She had tried to put matters right in the proper manner from within the system , but that had n't worked , and she believed the Children 's Hearing system was at risk in Orkney . |
| 23 | Blake had tried to advise him to relax , and when that had n't worked had shouted at the Time Lord . |
| 24 | If that had n't worked I 'd have tried something else , but , rather to my surprise , you snapped up the bait first time … ’ |
| 25 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have helped , ’ says Rainbow , ‘ if you two had n't gabbled at each other all night long . ’ |
| 27 | a third had n't eaten in the previous twenty four hours . |
| 28 | We both had n't seen much or done much . ’ |
| 29 | Nothing could have saved it since we both had n't finished growing up . |