Example sentences of "[verb] n't been so [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 2 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 3 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 4 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 5 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |