Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [adv] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 2 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 3 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 4 | Winbush had n't really been any help . |
| 5 | It had n't always been that way . |