Example sentences of "she [verb] not [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Guilt rose in Dinah ; she had never returned Mrs Gracie 's money ; she had not been able to . |
| 32 | For a long time she had not been able to face many of her friends . |
| 33 | She came back defeated ; she had not been able to move her . |
| 34 | She had not been able to read on . |
| 35 | Since that day she had not been able to sleep , or to think straight . |
| 36 | She had not been able to drink the tea , although she had tried , so as not to be ungrateful . |
| 37 | It must be almost dawn , she thought absently ; an hour ago she had not been able to see a thing . |
| 38 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 39 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 40 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 41 | When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant , she had not been able to confide in them . |
| 42 | She had not been maudlin then : the tears , Dexter felt , were as much ones of laughter as of despair . |
| 43 | Seeing the line of taxis at the station in Porlea she had not been optimistic , but time had narrowed the spaces of the countryside . |
| 44 | She had not been wrong . |
| 45 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 46 | She had not been ill . |
| 47 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 48 | He never found the proximity of women offensive or objectionable , which was probably due to Pershti 's gentle influence ( she had not been Shannish ) , but it took Lucien a while to overcome a feeling of discomfort , having so many of them around him . |
| 49 | At the last moment she had not been brave enough . |
| 50 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 51 | Anne Liddy , the clog dancer , only worked for John for a couple of seasons , so she had not been Tillerized . |
| 52 | I was very taken aback , as she had not been old , and asked where she might be buried . |
| 53 | And she had not been blind either . |
| 54 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 55 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 56 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 57 | still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious |
| 58 | She 's not been asleep a minute all night ! |
| 59 | She 's not been good at negotiating . |
| 60 | She 's not been any more so I 'll have to go round to . |