Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 2 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 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 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 9 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 10 | He was n't being fair and he had n't been fair a year ago . |
| 11 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 12 | She had already suggested this to Ben , and he had n't been co-operative . |
| 13 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 14 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 15 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 16 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 19 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 20 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 21 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 22 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 23 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 24 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 25 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 26 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |