Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 2 | Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice . |
| 3 | He also cited the fact that they had not profited personally from their conduct , that they had " a record of long and distinguished service " , and that all had already in terms of emotional anguish and damaged careers paid a price which was " grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgement they might have committed " . |
| 4 | The general dimensions of the issue had not changed much from those noted during the 1980s . |
| 5 | Rooted near the bottom of the table , they had not won away from home for nearly two years . |
| 6 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 7 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 8 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 9 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 10 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 11 | The young woman had picked up her handbag , but had n't moved apart from that . |
| 12 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 13 | In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone . |
| 14 | A look at the estate map of 1634 gives a picture of the village as it was then , and it is probable that this had n't changed much from the previous centuries . |