Example sentences of "[pron] had n't [be] [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 such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’
3 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 .
4 I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen .
5 I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie .
6 I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out .
7 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 .
8 I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I was getting hungry and frustrated because I had n't been able to enjoy any of it .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 I had n't been alone on this drinking jag .
20 Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career .
21 I had n't been quick to come around to Caduta , as you know .
22 I had n't been afraid .
23 If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic .
24 I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be .
25 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
26 I had n't been wrong .
27 I had n't been frightened , that was what surprised me .
28 He 'd climbed on his own , level after level , way up through clanking , pounding , smoking factoryland ; which had n't been easy .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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