Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 32 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 33 | Because I had n't been in a band for so long , there were plenty to choose from … |
| 34 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 35 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 36 | I had n't been near the place for four years . |
| 37 | I said I had n't been playing . |
| 38 | She in turn asked why I had n't been to visit her . |
| 39 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 40 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 41 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 42 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |
| 43 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 44 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 45 | No , I had n't been in prison . |
| 46 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 47 | I had n't been alone on this drinking jag . |
| 48 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 49 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 50 | I had n't been feeling too well all day , but after opening-time when Toby 'd gone out to get the wine I started to feel better and began to dress . |
| 51 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 52 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 53 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 54 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
| 55 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 56 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 57 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 58 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 59 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 60 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |