Example sentences of "[vb past] n't be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd written well she did n't been consulted |
| 2 | and the reason why they did n't is because the losses at the moment are acceptable . |
| 3 | Jane : No I did n't is certainly confrontational but it 's of little interest dramatically . |
| 4 | Oh I did n't is want Chip and Dale on |
| 5 | Those who did n't are responding by pointing out that some of those who did ought to have stood as candidates if they wanted a real revolt . |
| 6 | Those of you who did n't are guilty of not reading the questions properly . |
| 7 | You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter . |
| 8 | I did n't be sick . |
| 9 | ‘ The only reason we did n't was a pragmatic one : we had just used ‘ Is Government Dead ? ’ and could n't use it again . ’ |
| 10 | The only person that did n't was Fish , who had to save face and went on claiming it was true . |
| 11 | One person who did n't was the police sergeant . |
| 12 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ He crumbled over those two little old ladies he met in Brighton , and did n't being to take the chance that had been offered to him . |
| 14 | ‘ Mrs Iverson had n't been beastly to Miss Amy hall , I take it ? ’ |
| 15 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 16 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 17 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 18 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 19 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 20 | Mr Healey said that Labour , always having had a majority of men , would have won every election since 1922 if women had n't been given the vote . |
| 21 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 22 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 23 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 24 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 26 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 27 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The girl in the mortuary had n't been anything like five feet nine , but you could n't expect an aunt to tell the height of a prone corpse . |
| 30 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |