Example sentences of "[pron] had n't even [be] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had n't even been jealous of her dead husband . |