Example sentences of "had n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rune 's tone was bland , his expression suggesting that if it had n't been impolite he would have challenged her rash assertion . |
| 2 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 3 | These comments are slightly at variance with the rather more positive reports from the specialist booksellers in The Bookseller 's Christmas roundup ( 8th January ) , although the latter were evidently expressing a degree of relief that Christmas had n't been worse while the CBI survey respondents were , at least , somewhat less pessimistic than a year previously . |
| 4 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 5 | But Madge had n't been pleased : she had n't shown any emotion at all when Marie looked round the door . |
| 6 | It had n't been real . |
| 7 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 8 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 9 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 10 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 11 | Besides , if he had n't been selfish , hard , ambitious , he would n't be where he is . ’ |
| 12 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 13 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 14 | At first , Mrs Caswell had n't been all that keen , probably because she did n't want anybody dying on the premises . |
| 15 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |
| 16 | Oswald had n't been nearer Tibet than the end of Folkestone pier ! |
| 17 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 18 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 19 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 20 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 21 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now he thought about it , Ted Mosse had n't been much of a talker . |
| 25 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 26 | It was hanging over the side of the quarry , and she might have missed seeing it if the handles had n't been bright-red . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 29 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 30 | Angie had n't been asleep . |