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 . ’ |