Example sentences of "[pers pn] have n't [been] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 2 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 4 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 5 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 6 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 7 | It seemed unlikely that anyone would choose to live in this out-of-the-way place without some form of transport — if she had n't been so nervous , that would have occurred to her earlier , she thought wryly . |
| 8 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 9 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 10 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 11 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 12 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 13 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 14 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 15 | ‘ If you had n't been so awkward about it I doubt if that constable would even have taken my name and address . |
| 16 | You could have made it too , if you had n't been so stupid . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you had n't been so nasty , ’ she went on , ignoring his cold rebuttal , ‘ I 'd probably have gathered everything up . |
| 18 | If you had n't been so boring in the pub I would n't have left in such a temper ! ’ |
| 19 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 20 | I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? " |
| 21 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 22 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |
| 23 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 24 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 25 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 26 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 27 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 28 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
| 29 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 30 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |