Example sentences of "she [vb past] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been good enough to keep her plants alive . |
| 2 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 3 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 4 | He was quiet , waiting for Shelley to talk , and she began to feel sorry because she had n't been impressed by his offer of a swish night out . |
| 5 | She had n't been strong on words . |
| 6 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 7 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 8 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 9 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 10 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 11 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 12 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 13 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 14 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 15 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 16 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 17 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 18 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 19 | Last summer when she had gone in search of Andrzej 's son , she had n't been able to bring herself to speak to him . |
| 20 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 21 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 22 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 23 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 24 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 25 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 26 | He could see from her face that that really hurt , and also that it was something she had n't been able to work out satisfactorily for herself . |
| 27 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 28 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 29 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 30 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |