Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 2 | If only I had n't had that last cup of hot chocolate . |
| 3 | ‘ If only I had n't called it off she might still be here . ’ |
| 4 | If only I had n't said this , that or the other . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going to be a kennel-maid , ’ said Camille , ‘ only I had n't quite decided . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Damn , if only I had n't had that wine and walked home — well , the man 's a fool . |
| 7 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 8 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 9 | Obviously I had n't had enough to drink . ) |
| 10 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 11 | she said it 's a lot cheaper and easier , so I had n't got the springs at that time |
| 12 | But she saw his lips move and her eyes fixed on them , for suddenly she had n't the courage to look into his eyes . |
| 13 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 14 | Apparently you had n't . ’ |
| 15 | " I thought perhaps you had n't enough money . |
| 16 | Perhaps you had n't even identified them properly … |
| 17 | Or perhaps you had n't noticed ? ’ |
| 18 | You have a great movie here if only you had n't miscast the lead . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't stop singing that now , if only you had n't of said that |
| 20 | So she had n't mentioned Gilbert 's phone call about Amy being alive on Saturday evening or Amy 's talk of a box . |
| 21 | er after they got so you had n't got no more life in them we used to weld short bits onto . |
| 22 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 23 | And I can only really regret with er with hindsight that er we as a District Council did n't pursue our point er more vigorously , erm as our general approach to these matters is er to cooperate as far as we possibly can rather than enter into conflict , and I think that perhaps we had n't given as much emphasis to er the er our views as we ought to have done . |
| 24 | You know this K L M deal , so obviously we had n't got under the finger until called me in almost desperation |
| 25 | If only we had n't cut down those trees the view would be better . |
| 26 | And so we had n't sent them . |
| 27 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 28 | But perhaps they had n't cared enough ? |
| 29 | Perhaps they had n't wanted her to see . |
| 30 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |