Example sentences of "had n't [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was logging the cache petrol bombs which had n't been inspected for evaporation recently when the phone went . |
| 2 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 3 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 4 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 5 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 6 | Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army . |
| 7 | If he had n't been covered with blood I would have recognized him . |
| 8 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 9 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 10 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 11 | Such excitement had n't been known in Englefield since the Lowrie 's house had burned down . |
| 12 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 13 | Hayley Burton was thin and very pale , with small sores around her mouth and nose , greasy fair hair that had n't been washed in weeks , and dark-shadowed pale blue eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ I am sure that Michelle would rather John had n't been married to Alison , but that does n't mean to say she is going to go out and murder her , let alone involve her much-loved sister in the crime ’ . |
| 15 | Tom picked him up , secretly delighted that he had n't been deserted in affection . |
| 16 | It was amazing they had n't been invaded by detectives and policemen already . |
| 17 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 18 | ‘ I would appreciate it more if this one had n't been prompted by resentment of another man . ’ |
| 19 | Obviously it had n't been planted by Marshall ; the weed was the remains of a previous year 's crop . |