Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] n't even [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even been alarmed . |
| 2 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 3 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 4 | She had n't even been aware that the show had a programme , other than the stuff they put on the show board in the foyer . |
| 5 | She had n't even been aware of gnawing on her abused lip . |
| 6 | I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully . |
| 7 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 8 | He had n't even been jealous of her dead husband . |