Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had [not/n't] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 2 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 3 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 4 | ‘ Servants , be obedient to them that are your masters ’ she read in Ephesians 6 — and she had not been obedient . |
| 5 | And she had not been blind either . |
| 6 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 7 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 8 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 9 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 10 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 11 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 12 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 13 | He was n't being fair and he had n't been fair a year ago . |
| 14 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 15 | She had already suggested this to Ben , and he had n't been co-operative . |
| 16 | Her therapist had , naturally , put it to her that she had married her first husband just because he resembled her father , but Scarlet had rejected the suggestion quite emphatically : he had been a quiet , timorous boy until he discovered the excitement of chasing women , and he had not been artistic at all . |
| 17 | At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen . |
| 18 | It was normal to tear the shawl first so that its value would not tempt a profane person to violate the tomb ; but the shawl had been a beautiful one and he had not been able to bring himself to do that . |
| 19 | And he had not been brutal or selfish . |
| 20 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 21 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 22 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 23 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 24 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |