Example sentences of "[pron] had n't [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 2 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 3 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 4 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 5 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 6 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 7 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 8 | There had n't been a proper tea . |
| 9 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 10 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 11 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 12 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 13 | It had n't been a busy day in London town , but there was no mention of anybody falling through windows in Leytonstone . |
| 14 | It had n't been a little panda , either , but a Rover 2600 , an ‘ Area car ’ . |
| 15 | It had n't been an easy task , and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed . |
| 16 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 17 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 18 | It had n't been an unusual day . |
| 19 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 20 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |