Example sentences of "[pron] had n't [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 2 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 3 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 4 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 5 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 6 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 7 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 8 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 9 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 10 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 11 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 12 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 13 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 14 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 17 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 18 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 19 | It seemed unlikely that anyone would choose to live in this out-of-the-way place without some form of transport — if she had n't been so nervous , that would have occurred to her earlier , she thought wryly . |
| 20 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 21 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 22 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 23 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 24 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 27 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 28 | ‘ If you had n't been so awkward about it I doubt if that constable would even have taken my name and address . |
| 29 | You could have made it too , if you had n't been so stupid . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you had n't been so nasty , ’ she went on , ignoring his cold rebuttal , ‘ I 'd probably have gathered everything up . |