Example sentences of "[subord] she had 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 8 | Anne Liddy , the clog dancer , only worked for John for a couple of seasons , so she had not been Tillerized . |
| 9 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 12 | Ella Bembridge , for once without a cigarette in her mouth , worked as stoutly as the men , and would have forced her way into the building to collect some of Dimity 's treasures if she had not been forbidden to do so by Harold , who had taken charge with all the ready authority of one who had spent his life organising others . |
| 13 | An employer must allow a woman who has complied with the statutory procedures to return to her original job on terms and conditions no less favourable than those which would have applied if she had not been absent . |
| 14 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 15 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 16 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 17 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 18 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 19 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 20 | ( How much would this country and the world have heard even of the Right Honourable Member for Finchley if she had not been backed in the House by that numerical Conservative superiority ? ) |
| 21 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 22 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 23 | The wench could not talk thus if she had not been her master 's bedfellow . |
| 24 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 25 | It was a question Rain would have doubted if she had not been there to hear it . |
| 26 | And if she had not been mistaken … ? |
| 27 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 28 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 29 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 30 | Meredith delved in her plastic bag and produced a bottle of wine and — because she had not been sure whether her hostess drank — a box of chocolates . |