Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 2 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 3 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 4 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 5 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 6 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 7 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 8 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 9 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 10 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 11 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 12 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 13 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 14 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
| 15 | I would , he added mentally — if I had n't seen what the Luggage does to prying fingers . |
| 16 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 17 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 18 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 19 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 20 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 21 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 22 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 23 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |