Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had n't been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls .
2 I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie .
3 If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said .
4 If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic .
5 if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer
6 But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work .
7 Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career .
8 If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’
9 Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job .
10 If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone .
11 They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good .
12 And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’
13 She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus .
14 Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief .
15 It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child .
16 He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse .
17 If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’
18 If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet .
19 Well , you know , if you had n't been quick and run into me he could have caught up with you .
20 How might life have been different if you had n't been afraid ?
21 Similarly , if you had n't been lucky in the market , one lucky bet could send you home the richer by a season 's takings , if you could spot an outsider .
22 Rune 's tone was bland , his expression suggesting that if it had n't been impolite he would have challenged her rash assertion .
23 it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time
24 She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old .
25 Nenna knew that , if it had n't been disloyal , Richard would have appealed to her to do or say something .
26 Besides , if he had n't been selfish , hard , ambitious , he would n't be where he is . ’
27 When that happened it meant he was drunk , sprawled out on the sofa if he had n't been able to reach the bed .
28 If he had n't been able to , it does n't bear thinking about . ’
29 Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse .
30 I was getting hungry and frustrated because I had n't been able to enjoy any of it .
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