Example sentences of "[pron] had not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 2 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 3 | Last summer the common fluttered with holly blues , which I had not seen before . |
| 4 | She motioned to a man I had not seen before , striking in appearance , with a shock of grey hair and immaculately dressed . |
| 5 | A man entered who I had not seen before . |
| 6 | This time Miss Havisham was in another room , which I had not seen before . |
| 7 | It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 . |
| 8 | I had not run well ; I had not done myself justice . |
| 9 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 10 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 11 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 12 | I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 14 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 15 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 16 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 17 | ( I used the royal ‘ we ’ as I had not asked yet ! ) |
| 18 | Until I read you feature on old people ( ‘ Goutrage ! ’ 5 — 11 February ) I had not realised quite how much of a burden they really are . |
| 19 | My bitterness was real , but I had not spoken wildly ; the words were uttered with calculation . |
| 20 | I have also just finished ‘ The Well of Loneliness ’ , which I had not read previously . |
| 21 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 22 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 23 | I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it . |
| 24 | The man I had not found yet was real to me , but I was a phantom , as flat and one-sided as Dick Tracy or Steve Canyon . |
| 25 | Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was . |
| 26 | It was then that I experienced a side of Max that I had not known before : he was most caring and attentive , almost maternal , getting doctors and nurses , staying with me and looking after me in every way . |
| 27 | The surprise and shock registered yet again on Ewen 's face were so real that even I , if this time I had not known better , would have thought them genuine . |
| 28 | I had not walked so far for years . |
| 29 | The stimulus for these changes has been a combination of my own experiences of doing mathematics and the discovery that my pupils could do mathematics in ways that I had not appreciated before . |
| 30 | I had not slept much and was up before dawn . |