Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 2 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 3 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 4 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 5 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 6 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 7 | If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes . |
| 8 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 9 | Since Christmas they had not been so friendly . |
| 10 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 11 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 12 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 13 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 14 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 15 | He was careful to exchange addresses and telephone numbers and , if he had not been so short of funds , would have suggested buying her a drink at the Ritz , outside which they were both standing . |
| 16 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |