Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 2 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 3 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 4 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 5 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 6 | It had not been Mrs Diggory who had told Lady Lavinia about herself and Benedict . |
| 7 | What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ? |
| 8 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |
| 9 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 10 | If it had not been Con Gallagher it would have been someone else . ’ |
| 11 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 12 | It had not been McAllister 's night from dead ball situations and the consequences had been widespread . |
| 13 | If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ? |
| 14 | If it had n't been Mario , you 'd have thought it was schmaltz ; with Mario , it was peppered with self-irony , with seriousness , punctuated with laughter , with suddenly remembered incidents . |
| 15 | So it had n't been Johnny up there this morning , after all . |
| 16 | It had n't been irony ; Creston would n't be able to contain himself . |
| 17 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |
| 18 | He had n't been gardening , but happened to be wearing his casual clothes . |