Example sentences of "had n't [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Iverson had n't been beastly to Miss Amy hall , I take it ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 18 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 19 | He paused and with a shifty , fidgety look , said , ‘ D' you know what Hatton 'd have done that Saturday if he had n't been killed ? |
| 20 | It had n't been an unusual day . |
| 21 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 23 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 24 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 25 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 26 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 27 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 28 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 29 | David Bowie used to play material like ‘ Space Oddity ’ , ‘ Janine ’ , ‘ Port of Amsterdam ’ — in fact , the early material which appears on the ‘ Space Oddity ’ album which , at that time , had n't been recorded . |
| 30 | sparkling and looked like it had n't been touched , and I could n't believe it . |