Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 2 | Melanie decided to adventure downstairs to the kitchen , where she had not been . |
| 3 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 12 | Anne Liddy , the clog dancer , only worked for John for a couple of seasons , so she had not been Tillerized . |
| 13 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 14 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 15 | He went on to obtain a commission in the Regular Army , which involved sitting the final examination at Sandhurst , although he had not been a cadet . |
| 16 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 17 | Montrose , however , understood that although he had not been consulted and |
| 18 | Joseph , although he had not been invited , followed , keeping low , is Winchester clutched in both hands . |
| 19 | ‘ The Cloak of Invisibility in addition to all else ? ’ said Taliesin lightly , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Exactly , ’ and Taliesin looked up sharply , because although he had not been entirely flippant , neither had he been altogether serious . |
| 20 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 21 | Moldan , whose name was on the StB register although he had not been an agent , admitted to meeting with StB agents but declared that " in the conditions in Czechoslovakia at that time it never crossed by mind that I could refuse " . |
| 22 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 23 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 24 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 27 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 28 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 29 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 30 | Would Jennifer Jones have won five nominations and one Oscar ( The Song of Bernadette , 1943 ) , if she had not been married to David O Selznick ? |