Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i had [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 3 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 4 | I 'm always sitting thinking if I had n't got them , I 'd be thinking now was it on the card I have n't got you know |
| 5 | So I pulled to the side and I had n't changed a tyre for a long time , but I got the jack out of the back and started to jack the car up , and while I was doing it , these two ladies went , ‘ Ah , it 's Sting ’ . |
| 6 | I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple . |
| 7 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 8 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 9 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 10 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 11 | I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner . |
| 12 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 13 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 14 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 15 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 16 | ‘ Laura is our first child and I had n't got a clue what to do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 18 | It was looking a mess because I had n't had the heart to tidy it ; the sky outside had a yellow-grey sameness , without a hint of where the sun might be , and in that light the flowers on the dirty brown wallpaper looked sadder than ever . |
| 19 | And er we were quite fortunate in this cos I went , had to go to a meeting in Sheffield and I had n't realized in advance but at this meeting the people at the meeting were asked to give recommendations as to what priorities should be given in terms of awarding the bids . |
| 20 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a lad with bags of confidence and was quick to let me know that he 'd scored on his debut and I had n't . |
| 23 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 24 | I told the conference that I had not come into politics to preside over the destruction of the National Health Service and repeated the Government 's commitment to it . |
| 25 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 26 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 27 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 28 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 29 | He had been in the village the previous evening and I had n't bothered to wait up until he returned . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's sorry I am about your mam , would have come to the funeral if I had n't had to work , mind . ’ |