Example sentences of "[vb past] n't be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 2 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 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 | You could have made it too , if you had n't been so stupid . ’ |
| 5 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 6 | If Marie had n't been so desperate to escape from that room , she would n't have suggested taking Bella out in her wheelchair . |
| 7 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 8 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 11 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 12 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 13 | Wished he had n't been so damn scared that she 'd turn him down . |
| 14 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 15 | But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown . |
| 16 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 17 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 18 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Khan , I think if we had n't been so near the city , he would have burned the cart . |
| 20 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |
| 21 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 22 | If it had n't been so fucking cold . |
| 23 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 24 | There was love in that sofa , I said to George , love for which the Morrisons would have paid a fortune if he had n't been so prissy . |
| 25 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |
| 26 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 27 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 28 | ‘ If you had n't been so awkward about it I doubt if that constable would even have taken my name and address . |
| 29 | If he had n't been so hasty in consoling himself with Lexy , she would have rushed ahead with her usual blind enthusiasm , forgetting all the lessons her broken engagement had taught her . |
| 30 | If you ask me , if she had n't been so fussed over by you and your Mum she 'd have turned round and faced up to things and been a lot happier . |