Example sentences of "[vb past] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night I tried not being decent , being sharp and bitchy , instead . |
| 2 | It was the classic theme of the man depicted not being able to emerge from himself . |
| 3 | One Llandudno Junction worker , who asked not be named , said : ‘ Morale is very low . |
| 4 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 5 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 7 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 8 | He 'd not been sexually insistent with Judith , for instance . |
| 9 | It was n't far from where he lived , just a stop further on the tube , but he 'd not been to the area before . |
| 10 | as if there 'd not been trouble enough with Daisy , without we 've this now . |
| 11 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 12 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 13 | She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him . |
| 14 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 'd not been there , he would have found another excuse , believe me . ’ |
| 16 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 17 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 18 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 19 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 20 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 21 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 22 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 23 | I was just wondering , would you have imposed these very high home care charges if you 'd not been forced to by the cuts imposed by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 24 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 25 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 26 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |
| 27 | No , from what I said this morning I meant not being there , without realising that |
| 28 | She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes . |
| 29 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 30 | But whether he did or did not is not the point . |