Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving , she saw that the front door was still open : perhaps she had not been gone long , perhaps they had not yet missed her . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 3 | The girl was standing near the back door , obviously she had not been invited inside . |
| 4 | Constitutionally it had not been thought through . |
| 5 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 6 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 7 | Philip was being obliging , feeling that yesterday he had not been . |
| 8 | He said yesterday he had not been approached about the acquisition . |
| 9 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 10 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 11 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 12 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 13 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 14 | Indeed , so far he had not been able to discover any previous relationship at all between Zoser and the Zikr . |
| 15 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 16 | It must be almost dawn , she thought absently ; an hour ago she had not been able to see a thing . |
| 17 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly he had not been happy as a Wesleyan . |
| 19 | Germany was not bound by an agreement between the Netherlands and Denmark , and Article 6 could not be used to achieve indirectly what had not been done directly . |
| 20 | The woods kept by the woodwards were as a general rule also subject to the authority of the king 's foresters ; if the latter discovered a Forest offence there which had not been reported by the woodward , the wood was seized and the woodward attached to answer for his default . |
| 21 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
| 22 | I had previously caught two individuals of H. tricolor in the Malaise trap but until then it had not been recorded in Britain although it was known from Germany and Japan . |
| 23 | The market had been dense as a souk , tables heaved with cameras , yet I had not been tempted . |
| 24 | Yet she had not been required to tell them : they had not asked . |
| 25 | Tsu Ma 's eyes had never left Li Shai Tung 's face , yet they had not been seeing him . |
| 26 | Yet it had not been especially noble of me . |
| 27 | Main had been promised by the Cunningham party that he would regain his place , yet it had not been done . |
| 28 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 29 | Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain , until recently it had not been studied in detail . |
| 30 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |