Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 2 | Lucy had n't been a hundred per cent sure with Charlie , but here she felt certain . |
| 3 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 4 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 5 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 6 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 7 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 8 | There had n't been a proper tea . |
| 9 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 10 | It had n't been a little panda , either , but a Rover 2600 , an ‘ Area car ’ . |
| 11 | It had n't been a busy day in London town , but there was no mention of anybody falling through windows in Leytonstone . |
| 12 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 13 | The literati and the US army had n't been the only imports into Europe from across the Atlantic . |
| 14 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 15 | Vanessa had n't been the first woman to indulge his taste in hand-made shirts and silk waistcoats , nor would she be the last . |
| 16 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 17 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 18 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 19 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 20 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 21 | That had n't been The Last Straw ; far from it . |
| 22 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 23 | It had n't been an easy task , and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed . |
| 24 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 25 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 26 | It had n't been an unusual day . |
| 27 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 28 | Their attack on the Centre LePen had n't been an unqualified success , but Duroc was pleased with the loss of life . |
| 29 | She could defend herself — that had n't been an empty boast . |