Example sentences of "[pron] had n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had n't been good enough to keep her plants alive . |
| 32 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 33 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 34 | He was quiet , waiting for Shelley to talk , and she began to feel sorry because she had n't been impressed by his offer of a swish night out . |
| 35 | She had n't been strong on words . |
| 36 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 37 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 38 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 39 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 40 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 41 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 42 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 43 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 44 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 45 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 46 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 47 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 48 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 49 | Last summer when she had gone in search of Andrzej 's son , she had n't been able to bring herself to speak to him . |
| 50 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 51 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 52 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 53 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 54 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 55 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 56 | He could see from her face that that really hurt , and also that it was something she had n't been able to work out satisfactorily for herself . |
| 57 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 58 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 59 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 60 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |