Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Libby began to feel that he had not been real , but the tent was there , a packet of cigarettes on the rolled mattress , and the smell of smoke filled the airless canvas space , scents of sweat and soap , adult tainting . |
| 2 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |
| 3 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 4 | On visits to the golf course since his son 's death , Mr Allan said , he had not been impressed by the new safety fence or by the position of two new lifebelts near the quarry . |
| 5 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 6 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 7 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 8 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 9 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 10 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 11 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly he had not been happy as a Wesleyan . |
| 14 | And yet , unaccountably , he had not been happy with her . |
| 15 | He had not been clear whether or not he should attend the wedding ceremony . |
| 16 | He was still , tensed and alert on the sidling , startled horse ; but he had not been startled . |
| 17 | But , for once , he had not been concerned with his own pleasure . |
| 18 | He soon found , though , that he had not been eligible to join , having refused to join the top civil servants ' trade union which was then attempting to block a Foreign Office shake-up . |
| 19 | He had been appalled , as had the rest of the court , at the emaciation of the four ambassadors sent them by the city , but he had not been surprised . |
| 20 | He had not been active in the partnership for some years now , so that the younger inhabitants were more familiar with Doctor Lovell , who had married a Thrush Green girl , and was accepted as a comparatively worthy successor to Doctor Bailey . |
| 21 | She had never visited him in Oxford before ; he had not been alone with her for years — not since the war , not since London . |
| 22 | He had not been alone in fleeing thus ignominiously . |
| 23 | And he had not been brutal or selfish . |
| 24 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 25 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so . |
| 28 | As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations . |
| 29 | He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding . |
| 30 | He had not been aware of anything ‘ iffy ’ until they arrived in the Borders . |