Example sentences of "[pron] had not been any " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 7 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 10 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |