Example sentences of "[conj] she have [not/n't] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 2 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 3 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 4 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 5 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 6 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 7 | " 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 . |
| 8 | Since she had not been a UK resident for longer than 3 yrs , you had kindly found a policy which charged ‘ only' £14 extra . |