Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not appeared to be surprised when he told her what he intended to do , nor had she put up any resistance . |
| 2 | The uranium ore he was carrying had not proved to be radioactive , his lawyer said . |
| 3 | The newswire quotes industry executives saying that the trio plan to announce by the end of the month that they have produced a working sample of the chip , which they had not expected to be ready until early next year . |
| 4 | I had thought it would be fun , but I had not expected to be able to rock 'n' roll by the end of the evening . |
| 5 | I had n't noticed to be honest . |
| 6 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 7 | She had n't wanted to be sensible or clever . |
| 8 | I began to feel ashamed of my nosiness but I had n't intended to be nosey : I was just curious . |
| 9 | She had n't had to be psychic to determine Margaret 's thoughts . |
| 10 | He had n't meant to be hurtful , she knew that perfectly well . |
| 11 | For once she had n't meant to be provocative , but Fen swore explosively and rage such as she had never seen filled his dark eyes . |
| 12 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 13 | I had n't expected to be able to speak to Alan before the end of the week , but at a quarter to five Sylvia de Groot telephoned to say that he was free now if I still wanted to see him . |