Example sentences of "[pron] had not [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden . |
| 2 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 3 | And she would still be listening to Mama 's complaining and thinking up excuses for not having the wedding just yet , which had n't been fair of her , really , because she did want to marry Charlie . |
| 4 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 5 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 6 | Wark , who had not been shy of venturing upfield for corners and free-kicks , struck the penalty cleanly enough , but against the crossbar . |
| 7 | Naseby , who had not been aware of making a joke , glared at Auguste . |
| 8 | What I mean is , that what I have to say to you , I would n't say if you had n't been one of the family . |
| 9 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 10 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 11 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 12 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 13 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 14 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 15 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 16 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 17 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 18 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 19 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 20 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 21 | He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so . |
| 22 | As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations . |
| 23 | He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding . |
| 24 | He had not been aware of anything ‘ iffy ’ until they arrived in the Borders . |
| 25 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 26 | He had n't been aware of any recent marks but , then , he was n't very clever at noticing that kind of detail . |
| 27 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 28 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 29 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |