Example sentences of "i had not [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac .
2 Oh she probably heard that I had not been well
3 What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ?
4 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 .
5 I realized I had not been fair to myself .
6 While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City .
7 Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before .
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