Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oswald had n't been nearer Tibet than the end of Folkestone pier ! |
| 2 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 3 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 4 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you had n't been next door here , you 'd never have known . " |
| 8 | When we had parked there had n't been another vehicle in sight . |
| 9 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 10 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 11 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 12 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 13 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 16 | 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 . |