Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 2 | It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed . |
| 3 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 4 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 5 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 6 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 7 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 8 | At the last moment she had not been brave enough . |
| 9 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 10 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 11 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 12 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 13 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 14 | The matter was referred to Jockey Club headquarters in London to enable the stewards to see a video recording of the Ayr race which had not been available at Carlisle . |
| 15 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 16 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |
| 17 | Since that day she had not been able to sleep , or to think straight . |
| 18 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 19 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 20 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 21 | She had a small collection of recipes which had not been suitable for the Mediterranean book and these now became French Country Cooking , published in 1951 . |
| 22 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 23 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 24 | The other time , he remembered , it was his father who had n't been able to eat . |
| 25 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 26 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 27 | The tears which had not been far away came to the surface . |
| 28 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 29 | Our first assumption , that non-respondents would tend to be teachers who had not been involved in a review , proved to be unfounded . |
| 30 | These were leaders who had not been subject to party screening or peer review and had succeeded almost exclusively on the strength of their appeal to mass electorates . |