Example sentences of "she have [not/n't] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not been directly involved in the Orkney situation , but she did lecture on ritual or satanic abuse at a two-day seminar in Aberdeen in November 1990 . |
| 2 | She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him . |
| 3 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 4 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 5 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 6 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 7 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 8 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 9 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 10 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 11 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 12 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 13 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 14 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 15 | It seemed unlikely that anyone would choose to live in this out-of-the-way place without some form of transport — if she had n't been so nervous , that would have occurred to her earlier , she thought wryly . |
| 16 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 17 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 18 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 19 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 20 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 21 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 22 | She had not been favourably impressed by Trevor 's arrogant display of bad manners , but kept her thoughts to herself . |
| 23 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 24 | It was the final proof that perhaps , after all , she had not been as inferior to her sister as she had imagined . |
| 25 | The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form . |
| 26 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 27 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 28 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 29 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 30 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |