Example sentences of "but [pron] had n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 4 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 7 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 11 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |