Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] n't been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 4 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 5 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 6 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 7 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 8 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 9 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 10 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 11 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 12 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 14 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 15 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 16 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 17 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 18 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 19 | It had n't been such a cold night , what had happened ? |
| 20 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 21 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 22 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 23 | If he had n't been such a lousy husband I might not have got myself in so deep … ’ |
| 24 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |