Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 2 | I regret not being able to deal with the subject of community care policy as extensively as its importance deserves , although there is a general discussion in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | That night I tried not being decent , being sharp and bitchy , instead . |
| 4 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 5 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 6 | ‘ I like not being able to breathe . ’ |
| 7 | I remember not being able to stand outside a phone kiosk any longer and dragging out a man who was obviously gossiping therein . |
| 8 | I remember not being able to face certain people for months afterwards . |
| 9 | I ca n't I have n't been bloody , yeah you have now , I 've still got ta get to there yet before I can bloody buy anything |
| 10 | I did n't tell you what Emma thought because I do n't is that a blank page ? |
| 11 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
| 12 | I did n't be sick . |
| 13 | If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said . |
| 14 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 15 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 16 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 17 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 18 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
| 19 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 20 | I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden . |
| 21 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’ |
| 24 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 25 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 26 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 27 | I was getting hungry and frustrated because I had n't been able to enjoy any of it . |
| 28 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 29 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 30 | 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 . |