Example sentences of "i had [not/n't] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 2 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 3 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 4 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 5 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |