Example sentences of "she had not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Stories appeared that were untrue , newspapers quoted things she had not said and she began to feel panicky .
2 She had not realised before exactly how dependent she had become on Piers .
3 Headlined ‘ This Sick Idea ’ , the leader recorded the fact that Mr Clay was unaware of what Mrs Thatcher was trying to do and asked whether she had not realised that ‘ by seeking to reward the only general secretary who treated her with kid gloves , she would end up by blackening his name ’ .
4 She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension .
5 She had not realised that they were so young .
6 She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal .
7 When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend .
8 And she hugged him tight , tight , as she had not done since he was much younger and liked to squeeze her back until she protested that she could n't breathe .
9 Liz agreed to contact some old friends that she had not seen since before the break-up of the relationship with her boyfriend .
10 But she was feeling guilty : she had not given and she would not give Miss Danziger Fru Gertlinger 's note .
11 Sara admitted she had not played as well as expected in Spain where she and Gowers were second round casualties .
12 She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills .
13 Would he have listened to her then , if she had not flung that furious retort at him before they were confronted by Ralf ?
14 She had not realized that everyone in the world does not celebrate an Irish Halloween .
15 She had not eaten since Paris and nothing had ever tasted so good to her as this rough peasant fare .
16 She had not eaten or drunk anything since she walked in .
17 Molly smiled , thinking of Jacqueline , no longer a baby it was true , but so trusting , so unperturbed by being transported to the top of a Tuscan tower , that she had not stirred when her mother knelt beside the bed to kiss her .
18 It was quite plain to Miss Fogerty that she had not forgiven or forgotten .
19 She had not meant that , Ashley thought frantically , at least not in the way his husky intonation was making it sound , not how the look in his dark eyes seemed to imply .
20 She had not exaggerated when she 'd said she felt weary .
21 It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself .
22 She had not known that Scathach had known , not been aware that he had seen .
23 But she had not known when Foucard last spoke to her and he could not know she had found out .
24 But she had not spoken before Taggy took in her condition .
25 In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’
26 It is as though she had not died but been transformed .
27 ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child .
28 She had not listened when he spoke of Flint .
29 Yes , but Omi had n't , Erika thought , she had not forgotten that handsome officer who had courted her all those inconceivable years ago .
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