Example sentences of "and had not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 2 | Did n't know and had n't wanted to ! |
| 3 | She did notice too that Moran was more carelessly dressed than she remembered and had n't shaved for at least a day . |
| 4 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 5 | He was standing quietly and had n't spoken at all . |
| 6 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 7 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 8 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 9 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 10 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 11 | West Indies had lost only one home Test in the previous decade , and had not lost in Kingston since Australia beat them in 1954–5 . |
| 12 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 13 | Castro later stated that he favoured political and economic integration with Latin America but had not come begging for aid and had not asked for oil supplies to replace the potential loss of shipments from the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 15 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 16 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 17 | Our advice , from solicitors and counsel , remained steadfast : that , in their view , the banks had clearly lost money through their own negligence and had not relied on the company accounts at all . |
| 18 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 19 | In 1763 the Cours des Aides , one of the chief legal and financial institutions of the monarchy , asked for the convocation of the States-General ( a national representative body , organized by social orders , which had originated in the later Middle Ages and had not met since 1614 ) . |
| 20 | The slug had missed the bone and major blood vessels and had not spread during its brief passage , so the exit wound was only slightly larger than the entry wound . |
| 21 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 22 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 23 | She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights . |
| 24 | Despite the divisions the omens were encouraging , for the communists of all factions had striven to undermine Japanese rule and had not compromised with Japan , as had so many of the conservative nationalists with the exception of Syngman Rhee and Kim Ku . |
| 25 | They have already collected 1,000 signatures , said Mr Leeder , and had not come across one person who had objected to what they wanted . |
| 26 | The Roman politicians of the post-Gracchan period Posidonius admired were those who had shown moderation and had not yielded to the rapacity of the equestrian class , men like Rutilius Rufus or Lucius Sempronius Asellio , a benefactor of Sicily ( Diod. 37.5 ; 8 ) . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) That the existence of pending proceedings in a court of superior jurisdiction was a factor to be taken into account by a judge in deciding how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate proceedings in his own court ; that the district judge had properly assessed the situation and had not erred in refusing to postpone the trials in his court until after the High Court trial ; and that , accordingly , there had been no ground for interfering with his decision ( post , pp. 265F–G , 266G ) . |
| 28 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |
| 29 | Thank goodness , though that for all he was n't so free with his smiles he had a terrific sense of humour and had not held against her the blunt , not to say impolite way she 'd asked if he was prepared to give her an interview . |
| 30 | The species richness of this invertebrate community also fell by half — 69 species were recorded prior to flooding — and had not recovered after two years . |