Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had dismounted , he broke me a piece , though I had not complained of hunger . |
| 2 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 3 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 6 | I was told by a Milanese , with a wry smile , that it was as well the prophet had not heard of smog , or that would have been included as well . |
| 7 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 8 | The local postman had not heard of John Thaw . |
| 9 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 10 | Helmut had not heard of M. Lévy . |
| 11 | No , the man said , sighing as he downed the last spread of goat 's cheese , he had not heard of the Borrowdale cuckoo . |
| 12 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 13 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 14 | Obviously he did n't remember me , for when the College wrote to him for a reference , he replied that he had not heard of me . |
| 15 | ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . ) |
| 16 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 17 | Nour had laughed because I had not heard of Herodotus . |
| 18 | The more natural meaning seems to me to be , ‘ at starting in the profession , ’ for it will be observed that these words are used by the testator in reciting a prior promise made when the testator had not heard of the proposed marriage with Ellen Nicholl , or , so far as appears , heard of any proposed marriage . |
| 19 | I had not heard of him since . |
| 20 | He claimed he had not heard of the Virgin Mary either . |
| 21 | I had not heard of it ? ’ |
| 22 | He had not heard of the complaint , but promised : ‘ If we have a personal complaint , we would take it up . |
| 23 | It revealed most black and ethnic minority households interviewed in south east Hampshire had not heard of the local council 's SSD . |
| 24 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 25 | But other members said that they had not known of plans to attack Mr Reagan . |
| 26 | Until the past decade , however , the vast majority of specialists in the period had not known of her existence . |
| 27 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 28 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 29 | He thought she had not known of his feelings , until the night of the receiving of new candidates into the Fiana , at which Fergus , as its head , must preside . |
| 30 | Like their Western counterparts , the Israeli government was evidently taken by surprise by the invasion of Kuwait and questions were raised later in the month as to why Mossad ( the country 's intelligence service ) had not known of Saddam 's intentions . |