Example sentences of "you had not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had not understood that it was an agreed tenancy — with the Council . |
| 2 | You had not observed the servants ’ negligence ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you had not given the money to the Moslems . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah now you see the , the difficulty with that particular one was I was n't con convinced or committed to buying anything because you had not explored my needs |
| 5 | Until your exhibition at Anthony d'Offay 's gallery last summer , you had not showed a major group of works in London since the Serpentine Gallery 's exhibition of 1975 . |
| 6 | ‘ You had not enquired from Herr Sanders what was amiss ? ’ |
| 7 | If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’ |
| 8 | Or would have appeared if you had not crossed it out . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 10 | She was there because you had not kept your appointment with her and so she had to make her own way home in the dark . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am glad you had not run away , ’ she said in an unwontedly meek voice . |
| 12 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |
| 13 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |
| 14 | But I needed to be sure that you had not forgotten your homesite . |
| 15 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ he admitted , ‘ and so , perhaps , would I have done if you had not come . |
| 17 | I do not know what I would have done if you had not come . ’ |
| 18 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 19 | — No , said Davin , but I wish you had not told me . |
| 20 | ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me . |
| 21 | You could receive a lot of heavy bills which you had not anticipated , or you might suffer a car accident and find that the other person is not insured , or if your spouse has died you may be left with debts that you were unaware of . |
| 22 | You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’ |
| 23 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ This never would have happened if you had not deserted your post ! ’ he snapped sharply . |
| 25 | ‘ You had not thought of it ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 27 | If you had not known who O was you might have thought that Madame was planning a seduction , or wondering whether he was a suitable candidate for a job — her new barman or doorman . |
| 28 | They form , as it were , a heavy launching-pad from which your rocket will fly higher than if you had not known them . |
| 29 | You would never quite know what you might find here ; you would certainly find unexpected flights of stairs which might lead anywhere at all , and you would surely sometimes come upon doorways you had not known existed . |
| 30 | I could not have poisoned the bread , my lord Niccolò , if you had not introduced it , against explicit orders . |