Example sentences of "had not spoken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt exhausted ; she had not spoken for ten minutes and felt that unless she said something soon she would disappear . |
| 2 | It was particularly offensive because Cliff had not spoken for ten days in order to rest his larynx and avoid surgery before a new tour . |
| 3 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 4 | He recalled with amazement , as if it were years ago , his first shocked vision of the adult Irina , the shaggy , sullen , unkempt ‘ gipsy ’ girl standing at the door of Red Cottage who had not spoken to him , and whom he had even conjectured to be mentally defective . |
| 5 | He had not spoken to Miss Needham-Burrell himself and had no idea how old she was . |
| 6 | But last night beleaguered United boss Alex Ferguson , under pressure from the Old Trafford board to seal a big-name transfer before his side 's next game against Oldham a week tomorrow , whose bid for Sheffield Wednesday striker David Hirst was rejected earlier this week , insisted an agreement was impossible because Edwards had not spoken to EITHER of them . |
| 7 | Thank God , she thought , Urquhart had not spoken to Swod first . |
| 8 | All the children called her ‘ our Hilda ’ , though in fact Desmond and Margaret had not spoken to her more than once or twice in their lives . |
| 9 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 10 | On July 28 , Maj. Botha issued a statement in which he said he had not spoken to the Inkatha leader about the funding , but to his assistant , Khumalo . |
| 11 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 12 | Dr Ali had not spoken to anyone since he had got the job . |
| 13 | He had not spoken to her about it . |
| 14 | Remarkably , four out of these five had not spoken to each other since 1939 . |
| 15 | He had not spoken of the cigar butt to the Station Chief … |
| 16 | The father and son had not spoken about the assault yesterday but John Norrie was clearly shaken by his son 's facial injuries . |
| 17 | He was standing quietly and had n't spoken at all . |
| 18 | She said it quietly , but then wished she had n't spoken at all . |
| 19 | Len said carefully , ‘ When my dad died , he and my mum had n't spoken for three years . |
| 20 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 21 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 22 | You had n't spoken for some time . |
| 23 | We had n't spoken to each other since Sid woke me up , just before the shelling started . |
| 24 | It was now the second week in January and she had n't spoken to him since the night of the Christmas dance . |
| 25 | He had n't spoken to her since the day before her father resigned . |
| 26 | She had n't spoken to him since New Year 's Eve , since Violette had told her . |
| 27 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 28 | They had n't spoken to one another about Timothy Gedge , either last night or since Stephen had closed the French windows in his face , several hours ago . |
| 29 | She wondered whether she should ring Bridget — she still had n't spoken to her since leaving Oxford on Monday morning — but , with Jamie 's visit imminent , she shied away from the thought . |
| 30 | She had n't spoken to him since leaving the harbour . |