Example sentences of "i [verb] [not/n't] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane : No I did n't is certainly confrontational but it 's of little interest dramatically . |
| 2 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 3 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 4 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 5 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 6 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 7 | Mm that 's what I 've cos I 've not been very busy I 've been picking , you know like a few peanuts there 's chocolate peanuts , there 's |
| 8 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 9 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 10 | And er it was probably where the drovers came through , it 's a drove road and I , I have n't been quite able to find out what he di I think he would be a shepherd probably . |
| 11 | I 've seen the laws in action and I have n't been too impressed . |
| 12 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 13 | It reminded Franca of some old happiness ; and she thought I have n't been really happy since that very first day when he said there was someone else but I was n't to worry . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't been entirely honest with you , Inspector . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't been entirely honest . ’ |
| 16 | " So I have n't been absolutely truthful with him . |
| 17 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 18 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
| 19 | ‘ I have given 100pc but my play has been affected because I have not been mentally happy . ’ |
| 20 | I have not been very kind to UK banks or bankers recently , so they may be pleased to find their incompetence echoed , or even exceeded , abroad . |
| 21 | I have not been really warm for days . |
| 22 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 23 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |