Example sentences of "she [vb past] n't be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd written well she did n't been consulted |
| 2 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 3 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 4 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had n't come out and she had n't been allowed in . |
| 7 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 10 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 14 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 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 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 17 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 18 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 19 | Even if she had n't been linked to the blackamoor , the cards were stacked against flight . |
| 20 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 21 | She has striking Italian looks , a model height of five feet ten inches and long slim legs — all attributes which she had n't been taking advantage of . |
| 22 | She had n't been out because she wanted to stay in and look after Bradley . |
| 23 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 24 | Apart from a few weddings she had n't been inside a church for a long while . |
| 25 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 26 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 27 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 28 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 29 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 30 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |