Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 2 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 3 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 4 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 5 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 6 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 7 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 8 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 9 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 10 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 11 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 12 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 13 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 14 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 15 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 16 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 17 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 18 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 19 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 20 | But she has n't been well . |
| 21 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 22 | He was quiet , waiting for Shelley to talk , and she began to feel sorry because she had n't been impressed by his offer of a swish night out . |
| 23 | At the time it had been easy enough to make the pledge he had demanded , since she had n't been able to imagine a situation where she would ever want to attack anyone . |
| 24 | ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words . |
| 25 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |