Example sentences of "not [been] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wench could not talk thus if she had not been her master 's bedfellow . |
| 2 | It had not been her head which Ghost of the Tree had worked on to his skull-staff the night before . |
| 3 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 4 | It had not been her intention in any way to pry . |
| 5 | It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment . |
| 6 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 7 | What Westminster MPs tend not to understand is that the beneficiaries of this process have not been their cousins in the Strasbourg Parliament , nor even the European Commission , but the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | The member States were deemed to be at one with the Organisation and the Tribunal concluded that it had not been their intention to disappear behind its constitution . |
| 9 | Family Hold Back has not been my motto . |
| 10 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 11 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 12 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
| 13 | Not been our day at all has it ? |
| 14 | This seemed strange , as it had not been our habit to build large fires . |
| 15 | Though the stop for coffee had n't been her idea . |
| 16 | It had n't been her imagination , and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge . |
| 17 | One was the awful unfairness of it all , as it really had n't been her fault that Ethel had cast a bad spell on the broomstick she had lent to Mildred , thus ruining the display . |
| 18 | It had been a rout , but that had n't been his fault . |
| 19 | It had n't been his fault that Bill Morgan , the vehicle examiner , had chosen to come in open-necked shirt and corduroys ; neither he nor Dom had cared a damn what their guests chose to wear . |
| 20 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 21 | After all it had n't been his fault that Ianthe was in bed with ‘ flu . |