Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] n't been the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis .
2 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 .
3 But perhaps they had n't been the righteous .
4 Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind .
5 It had n't been the best of weekends .
6 It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’
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