Example sentences of "she have n't be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 2 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 3 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 7 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 15 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 18 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 19 | 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 . |