Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 2 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 3 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 4 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 5 | Of that hero , my great-great-grandfather , I soon determined to write what had not been written before , a biography . |
| 6 | A number of hazards were revealed which had not been specifically predicted but which needed to be taken into account in designing the main research project . |
| 7 | Apart from making a number of impressive black and white studies of the rugged terrain , he also photographed local people , always on the look-out for strength and dignity in their faces that showed they had not been eroded by the harsh circumstances in which they lived . |
| 8 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 9 | In the late 1930s a new pattern of earlier marriage began to emerge which had not been seen in the West for centuries . |
| 10 | And on the bus to Victoria she began to wish she had not been quite so rash in offering to visit John . |
| 11 | Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour . |
| 12 | Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour , complaining it had not been made clear it was make believe . |
| 13 | When she heard that a particular decision had not yet been implemented she telexed Moira , complaining : ‘ BA would be very annoyed if he heard it had not been done . ’ |
| 14 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 15 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 16 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 17 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 18 | What their Lordships find still more important in this case is that important evidence was adduced which had not been foreshadowed in the depositions . |
| 19 | Today had been the first time since he died she had not been tortured with thoughts of her Anthony . |
| 20 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 21 | I knew she had not been asked to the service at which her husband 's ashes were placed in the Spencer vault . |
| 22 | Bosses insisted she had not been shunted sideways , but insiders said management was making her ‘ more and more agitated ’ . |
| 23 | With her customary curtness , Camilla insisted she had not been told in advance about the announcement . |
| 24 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |
| 25 | But Mr Davidson felt they had not been unfair in their treatment of him . |
| 26 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | He knew he had not been dozing very long because the smells of fried bacon and toasted bread still drifted through the house . |
| 28 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 29 | Declan Casey , 39 , was seized in Strabane , Co Tyrone , just minutes after RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley insisted he had not been free to kill while working for Special Branch . |
| 30 | Retrospectively an additional 16 eligible patients were identified who had not been recruited . |