Example sentences of "n't be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There had n't been a proper tea . |
| 4 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 5 | But there had n't been a whisper about it . |
| 6 | There has n't been a real woman of feeling here since the war … ‘ ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't been a river man all these years for nothing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Come on now , Mr Willis , time to go back to the hospital … oh I hope he has n't been a bother … come on now , dear , in the car please … ’ she said . |
| 9 | There has n't been a longbow on those walls for two days . |
| 10 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 11 | There had n't been a 'plane overhead for him to hear . |
| 12 | But there had n't been a choice . |
| 13 | One of those deep troughs of dust could suck his wheels down , and there 'd be nobody passing on this road , not for days , maybe , maybe not even then , and he had n't thought to bring water along or tell anybody where he 'd gone , it had all happened too fast , there had n't been a moment . |
| 14 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 15 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |
| 16 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 17 | It had n't been a dream , or had it ? |
| 18 | But it had n't been a dream . |
| 19 | But it has n't been a problem . |
| 20 | ‘ If there had n't been a waiting list , Anne would n't be here today . ’ |
| 21 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 22 | Fifteen years … would have been ten if it had n't been a gun … poor creature … |
| 23 | ‘ There has n't been a pop band since Duran Duran and Wham ! who wrote their own material and had their own points of view . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not sayin' he 'as n't been a good Samaritan , but I never thought he 'd beat me black and blue just for arguin' with him . ’ |
| 25 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 26 | ‘ Because there has n't been a significant act of magic performed on earth in two centuries , ’ was Shales 's reply . |
| 27 | Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages . |
| 28 | With the release of ‘ The Rehearsal ’ his ultra-modest hopes have been realised in the finest possible style , because with the obvious exception of Jimmy MacCarthy 's debut there has n't been a solo endeavour to touch this one , here in recent times . |
| 29 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |