Example sentences of "it [vb past] not [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 2 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 3 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 4 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 5 | It had n't been such a cold night , what had happened ? |
| 6 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 7 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |