Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 2 | He had not made up his mind what to say to him , so spent time establishing a position in the Reading Room , under the high dome , which , however high , held , he felt , insufficient oxygen for all the diligent readers , so that they lay somnolent like flames dying in Humphry Davy 's bell-jar as their sustenance was consumed . |
| 3 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 4 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 5 | Cross-examined by the defence QC , Donald Macfadyen , Mr Runciman disagreed that after the executive committee meeting , while he had decided a profits warning should be issued , the two other members had not made up their minds . |
| 6 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 7 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 8 | At first , she was afraid that he had not turned up because he was not waiting , as he had promised , by Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 9 | When Kisling asked Beatrice why she had not turned up , Modigliani replied : ‘ I am responsible . |
| 10 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 11 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 12 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 13 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 14 | The Irish professional I was partnering needed a caddie for the tournament , since his usual man had not turned up . |
| 15 | Phyllis Henley had not turned up . |
| 16 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 17 | Afterwards , she was to wonder what might have happened if Mr Sands 's grand party had not turned up . |
| 18 | And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre . |
| 19 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 20 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 21 | People assumed Jack had not turned up to hear shanties written in his honour . |
| 22 | It had not turned out like that . |
| 23 | For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped . |
| 24 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 25 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 26 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 27 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |
| 28 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 29 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 30 | Everybody knew that if Everett had not stepped in to buy all those unsold shares , the company would have been a dead duck . |