Example sentences of "[conj] i 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 12 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 17 | The great bells of the abbey were booming and I idly wondered what would have happened to my life if Jack Hogg and I had not been taken . |
| 18 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 19 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 25 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 26 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 27 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 28 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 29 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 30 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |