Example sentences of "had [adv] not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hearing on the constitutionality of the CPSU and RCP was terminated , since the parties had effectively not existed since August-September 1991 . |
| 2 | Having lived with the passage for years , I am persuaded that it represents — based , as it plainly is , on Aeneid 1 , 341ff. , and 4 — a response to veteris vestigia flammae drastically at odds with Hardy 's response ( which , as we have seen , Pound had apparently not noticed in any case ) . |
| 3 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 4 | The NARCOG budget had apparently not stretched to air-conditioning , and there were times when life in Filanta Court was almost insupportable . |
| 5 | In 60% of cases referred to the Remuneration Certificate procedure in February and March 1993 , solicitors had apparently not discussed with , or written to , clients about their charges at any stage before sending the bill . |
| 6 | If I had ever not gone to Abraham when summoned , he promised me he would tell Sarah everything , or at least his version of everything . |
| 7 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 8 | The office of the Burford solicitor was responsible for the affairs of the Fettiplace family and Price informed the numbed and bewildered villagers that the solicitors had still not heard from Sir Nelson Fettiplace 's next-of-kin . |
| 9 | The other diner was plainly downstairs in the bar and did not appear during the whole of the lunchtime and had still not appeared by the time I had finished and paid my bill . |
| 10 | Laszlo was indomitably trying to learn English , and when Jane saw him again , ten years later , he had still not progressed beyond the first book , now old and tattered . |
| 11 | When William Senior drew his map of c.1635 Chesterfield had still not expanded beyond its medieval limits . |
| 12 | Tonight it seemed to me that Mrs Browning had still not recovered from her fear , and I suggested that I should perhaps stay and see her into bed . |
| 13 | But Richard had still not settled for being an actor . |
| 14 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 15 | Some while earlier , a weary-sounding Lewis had informed Morse that Mr Eddie Stratton had gone off somewhere just after lunchtime — from the railway station — and had still not returned to The Randolph . |
| 16 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 17 | The text of the work had to be submitted to Vienna for approval and by 24 August it had still not arrived for Mozart to set ( the wedding was to take place in October ) . |
| 18 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 19 | 268 Labour , and only 11 for the Liberals who had clearly not benefited from their quasi-governmental experiences of the Lib-Lab Pact . |
| 20 | Many staff felt that their involvement had simply not increased with financial devolution . |
| 21 | Probably , Comfort thought , as she blotted her lipstick and bared her teeth to check that there were no lipstick smears on them , Anthony had simply not felt like explaining his feelings to Julia and she had misinterpreted his silence . |
| 22 | But then something happened that had simply not happened with an previous ‘ miracle ’ technology the people demanded a voice . |
| 23 | It had simply not occurred to her to warn her mother that Fen believed … |
| 24 | Loretta blinked ; the possibility of a real emergency , rather than a false alarm , had simply not occurred to her . |
| 25 | Despite this , a number of those interviewed had either not heard of the ATB or had not participated in training . |
| 26 | I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do . |
| 27 | Andrew Stavanger was not on board , and her Master said that he had certainly not sailed in her . |
| 28 | She had certainly not planned on saying that , it was just that there was no reason to hate an old woman just because you hated her insufferable grandson , especially when she reminded you , in some indefinable way , of your own grandmother — but why should she explain any of that to this man ? |
| 29 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 30 | For he had certainly not returned to Brighton . |