Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 2 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 3 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 4 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 5 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 6 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 7 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 8 | The tears which had not been far away came to the surface . |
| 9 | The matter was referred to Jockey Club headquarters in London to enable the stewards to see a video recording of the Ayr race which had not been available at Carlisle . |
| 10 | She had a small collection of recipes which had not been suitable for the Mediterranean book and these now became French Country Cooking , published in 1951 . |
| 11 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 12 | But yet there 's no doubt at all that despite the technical shortcomings of his work in subsequent judgement , erm Russell by this work became , I suppose , the main founder of modern logic , the main founder of this kind of logic which by the much more sophisticated symbolic apparatus erm is able to panelize a much wider range of logical phenomena , and hence to reveal the structure in a way which had not been possible before . |
| 13 | The contract included limits for external financing which had not been subject to overall control previously , and set RENFE a variety of financial objectives including a reduction in its call on state funds . |
| 14 | They were in Bill 's roomy Mercedes , and Bill would follow later in Tom 's own sports car , which had not been practical for transporting Faye in complete comfort . |
| 15 | Now , once again , the topic was timely as a substantial area of policy that had been within the ambit of the Royal Commission , but one which had not been pre-empted by Government intentions for legislation . |
| 16 | It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed . |
| 17 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 18 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 20 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 21 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 22 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 23 | Meredith delved in her plastic bag and produced a bottle of wine and — because she had not been sure whether her hostess drank — a box of chocolates . |
| 24 | Olwen found this incredibly vulgar — she had not been impressed by the mixture of genuine antiques and large hideous brass objects which gave away Oyston 's boarding-house background . |
| 25 | She had wanted to meet the young man again , but now the opportunity had been afforded her she had not been confident enough to accept it . |
| 26 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 27 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 28 | She had not been pleased when it turned out the credit chip he needed to pay her fine was with the rest of his stuff on Plenty . |
| 29 | She had not been pleased to hear that the gentleman was a little the worse for drink ! |
| 30 | 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 . |