Example sentences of "[pron] had not [be] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 2 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 3 | I was getting hungry and frustrated because I had n't been able to enjoy any of it . |
| 4 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 5 | I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’ |
| 6 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 7 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 8 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 9 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 10 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 11 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |
| 12 | I had n't been quick to come around to Caduta , as you know . |
| 13 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 14 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 15 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 16 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 17 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 18 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 19 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 20 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 21 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 22 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 23 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 24 | She had denied everything , but , as Lori must have known , she had n't been able to save herself by denouncing her cousin . |
| 25 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 26 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |
| 27 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |
| 28 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 29 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 30 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |