Example sentences of "had n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't a clue what was expected . |
| 2 | I had n't done ‘ drama ’ at school , thank God , so I was completely open coming straight from school . |
| 3 | Had n't reckoned with weight of glass in my calculations . |
| 4 | He had n't , Paz said . |
| 5 | Had n't thought about him for years . |
| 6 | He assured me he had n't mentioned the glass to anyone , had n't dropped any hints . |
| 7 | He assured me he had n't mentioned the glass to anyone , had n't dropped any hints . |
| 8 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 9 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
| 10 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 11 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 12 | There was one good thing , though : in all the fuss I had n't had to apologize to Kezia . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Iverson had n't been beastly to Miss Amy hall , I take it ? ’ |
| 14 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 15 | I do wish he had n't said that last bit . |
| 16 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 17 | Although I had n't seen her in over thirty years , there was one person in the world who might help me : my sister . |
| 18 | It had n't occurred to me that Sarah and John might not be alone , but here , now , I would have to be introduced and explained away somehow . |
| 19 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
| 20 | But no I had n't , not necessarily . |
| 21 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 22 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 23 | Why had n't she been able to understand ? |
| 24 | And why had n't Kathleen understood ? |
| 25 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 26 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 27 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 28 | I had n't . |
| 29 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 30 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |