Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 2 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 3 | Melanie decided to adventure downstairs to the kitchen , where she had not been . |
| 4 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 5 | It was a view , noted the SRU 's chief executive , Bill Hogg , at Murrayfield yesterday , which Ian McGeechan fully endorsed — the Lions ' and Scotland coach contending that where they had not been proved they had not , as yet , been disproved . |
| 6 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 7 | On Jan. 16 the Central Commission on the Population and House Census announced the continuation of the census in areas where it had not been completed by Jan. 14 . |
| 8 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 9 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 10 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 11 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 12 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 13 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 14 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 15 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 16 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 17 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 18 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 19 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 20 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 21 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 24 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 25 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 26 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 27 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 28 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 29 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 30 | That she had n't been taken in , was what he had said ! |