Example sentences of "had not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things .
2 But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die !
3 However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics .
4 They had not expected him back before one o'clock .
5 She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) .
6 They let me wear a maternity dress then , because I had n't worn one up till then .
7 First attempt to get it to go failed because she had n't plugged it in to the electricity supply .
8 Well , there was one thing sure : whatever that feeling was he had n't passed it on to even one of his three sons .
9 ‘ And if you had n't got me out in time ? ’
10 Oh I 'd be fine if you had n't pulled me out of line
11 The other women had n't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes .
12 She hoped she had n't let him down in any way .
13 Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me .
14 Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved .
15 We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’
16 If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said .
17 best of it is he had n't taken it out of the
18 She had n't paid her round in the Oyster Bar the night before .
19 But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years .
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