Example sentences of "and [pron] had n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 2 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 3 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 4 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 5 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 6 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 7 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 8 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 9 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 10 | He was n't being fair and he had n't been fair a year ago . |
| 11 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 12 | She had already suggested this to Ben , and he had n't been co-operative . |
| 13 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 14 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 15 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |