Example sentences of "[pron] had n't [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even been alarmed . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't really been involved with rugby since 1984 when I retired at Bath but I was delighted when Blaina contacted me ’ , he commented . |
| 3 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 4 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 5 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had n't even been aware of gnawing on her abused lip . |
| 8 | Something was wrong , but she had n't quite been able to put her finger on it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had n't always been that way . |
| 13 | He had n't even been jealous of her dead husband . |
| 14 | A pot of coffee was spilled , and Sara had to get a damp cloth for the trousers of one of the visitors , who was involved in an unwise pretense that he had n't actually been asleep . |
| 15 | An experienced Substitute Prosecutor who would stand by him if things got tricky … and he had n't always been lucky . |