Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 4 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
| 7 | If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful . |
| 8 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 9 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 10 | Well I have n't been here to have chips Richard |
| 11 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 12 | Well I have n't been in and sat in our lounge this week . |
| 13 | Well I have n't been so I wonder what it is like ? |
| 14 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 15 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 16 | Surely he had n't been quite so irritating as a watchkeeping officer in the Lanark ? |
| 17 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 18 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 19 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 20 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 21 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet she has n't been out here to see you ? ’ |
| 23 | Yet it had not been especially noble of me . |