Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 4 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 5 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
| 6 | I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was getting hungry and frustrated because I had n't been able to enjoy any of it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had n't been alone on this drinking jag . |
| 18 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |
| 19 | I had n't been quick to come around to Caduta , as you know . |
| 20 | I had n't been afraid . |
| 21 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 22 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 23 | I had n't been wrong . |
| 24 | I had n't been frightened , that was what surprised me . |
| 25 | He 'd climbed on his own , level after level , way up through clanking , pounding , smoking factoryland ; which had n't been easy . |
| 26 | And she would still be listening to Mama 's complaining and thinking up excuses for not having the wedding just yet , which had n't been fair of her , really , because she did want to marry Charlie . |
| 27 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 28 | She had n't been good enough to keep her plants alive . |
| 29 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 30 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |