Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] n't been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 2 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
| 3 | I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden . |
| 4 | I had n't been alone on this drinking jag . |
| 5 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 6 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 7 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 8 | He was quiet , waiting for Shelley to talk , and she began to feel sorry because she had n't been impressed by his offer of a swish night out . |
| 9 | She had n't been strong on words . |
| 10 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 11 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 12 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 13 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 14 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 15 | She had n't been frightened until then but the high panic in his voice infected her . |
| 16 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 17 | If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet . |
| 18 | Similarly , if you had n't been lucky in the market , one lucky bet could send you home the richer by a season 's takings , if you could spot an outsider . |
| 19 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 20 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 21 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 24 | It had n't been easy at first ; he was n't her father and all she remembered of her own father was blows and shouting . |
| 25 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 26 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 27 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 28 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 29 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |
| 30 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |