Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] had n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool . |
| 2 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 3 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 4 | Either that , or perhaps that she had n't asked very many pointed questions . |
| 5 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 6 | She remembered uneasily that he had n't said a word about it . |
| 7 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're twenty-two , I think you said , ’ he reminded her when she would rather that he had n't . |
| 9 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 10 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |
| 13 | And he himself had been a faithful husband , not that he had n't had his chances — of course he 'd had his chances — other supplications and wooing had come his way , more spirited too than that woman from the stationery shop . |
| 14 | Not that he had n't tried , perhaps he had tried too often . |
| 15 | The time had passed so quickly that she had n't realised how late it was , or that the daylight had faded to dusk . |
| 16 | Because , so gradually that she had n't noticed it , the blue had faded from her sight . |
| 17 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 18 | He knew also that he had n't the right to refuse . |
| 19 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 20 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 21 | Eleanor immediately pointed out that he had n't exactly held his wife , who was thoroughly unfaithful if half the tales he 'd told were true . |
| 22 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 23 | Ballater answered smoothly that he had n't invited him . |
| 24 | Now that they had n't Baby to visit any more , all that was bound to start again . |
| 25 | Rosalind would have to know now that she had n't posted the letter ! |
| 26 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
| 27 | Cleo wished now that she had n't visited the mad woman . |
| 28 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 29 | Before that he had n't known Helena 's wedding date . |
| 30 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |