Example sentences of "she [verb] [not/n't] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 2 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 3 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 4 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 5 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 6 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 7 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 8 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 9 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |