Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , the Law Lords chose to say that the GLC had not adequately taken into account the interests of the rate payers and that the interests of the users of public transport had been unduly preferred . |
| 2 | Of 1,250 people quizzed , three quarters had not even heard of it . |
| 3 | Madonna had not even appeared in court with him . |
| 4 | The miners ' representatives had not even pressed for a free trade union , though they had demanded the removal of trade union officials whom they did not like or trust . |
| 5 | ‘ Twinky ’ , however , without question the fairest and most sporting player ever to don an Athletico shirt , was full of remorse and insisted that the referee , who had not even blown for a foul , send him off . |
| 6 | The Government maintained this position , even after the wide range of options contained in the White paper published in Copenhagen on 9 October and a contribution made by Mr Schlüter to the special Council of Ministers on 16 October showed that the Danish Government had not even decided in its own mind what position to take . |
| 7 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 8 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 9 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 10 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 11 | He 'd never mentioned it to her and she had not even thought about it until now , but therein lay her escape . |
| 12 | She had not even thought about persuading Marek Nowak to write down what he had told her . |
| 13 | In the event , however , she had not even thought of doing so . |
| 14 | ‘ I had not even thought of it . ’ |
| 15 | He had not even looked towards her again . |
| 16 | Fool that I was , I had not even looked in the newspapers , let alone the stage journals … |
| 17 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 18 | Alex wished she had not immediately thought of Matthew Prescott , who was not only emphatically not her new man , but unlikely to be any kind of man at all , as far as she was concerned . |
| 19 | Eliot had not altogether left behind his earlier anthropological interests . |
| 20 | Although forewarned by the bombardment , the Germans had not temporarily withdrawn from the heights ; so the troops in their trenches were bombarded for the best part of a week and could receive no food or relief from the devastating artillery fire . |
| 21 | Sandra , come to no good , had not consciously thought of ‘ home ’ for a long time . |
| 22 | Their fight , however , also serves to bring them closer to each other , each filling a void in their lives which they had not previously acknowledged as such . |
| 23 | It would also appear that the traditional British fleet had not previously fished for those stocks and was at that time still unable to exploit them fully . |
| 24 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 25 | It had not previously occurred to Camille that he might . |
| 26 | Michael Howard , then a Minister at the Department of the Environment , reported an opinion poll as having found that one-quarter of people who had not previously voted in local elections intended to vote in future as a result of the community charge ( interview on This Week , Next Week , 21 February 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Although two thirds of companies had not previously used outside advice and counselling , 35% did say that they would consider it . |
| 28 | The third book was about the progress of thought versus theology in mediaeval times ; Paul had not yet decided on a title . |
| 29 | Mr Lambert added the inquiry was still gathering steam and had not yet peaked despite the recent removal of the mobile police pod outside the pensioner 's home . |
| 30 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |