Example sentences of "had n't [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 2 | If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle . |
| 3 | Then : ‘ What if you had n't been here ? ’ |
| 4 | Jezrael almost fell over a gee-node that had n't been here when her memories had taped the place . |
| 5 | I think if Mum had n't been here I 'd have done something to her . |
| 6 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 7 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 8 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 9 | Juliet did n't sleep well , and when she arrived on Melrose next morning it was almost as though she had n't been away . |
| 10 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 11 | I did n't want the child , I was n't at all sure I was going to love it , even — certainly I 'd had no hints up to now that mother-love had n't been completely left out of my make-up . |
| 12 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 13 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 14 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 15 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 16 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 17 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 18 | But as far I could make out she had n't been outside , at least not in the garden where you 'd expect her to go . |
| 19 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 20 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 21 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 22 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 23 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 24 | Agatha had n't been unduly concerned . |
| 25 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 26 | ‘ Or even if they had n't been well paid , ’ added Tealtaoich . |
| 27 | The Granada had n't been past . |
| 28 | It clearly had n't been carefully read afterwards , because there are two words run together there , I mean you do really need to , to read things for grammatical errors , errors in people 's names . |
| 29 | One-Dimensional Chess had n't been all that difficult once they worked out the rules , and now their first answer was being carried or transmitted or processed-whatever-by the small attendant with the little red boots . |
| 30 | The brief sleep on the way had n't been enough . |