Example sentences of "had n't been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 2 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 3 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 4 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 5 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 6 | The building had n't been touched in the war , the wine-cellar was intact and the whole atmosphere was one of joyousness and laughter . |
| 7 | The Katz Motel was a klick out of town , and had n't been touched by the firefight . |
| 8 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 9 | Er or indeed you know , the issue er of a job which had n't been done on a particular machine er but was timed on another one . |
| 10 | I was still finding out some of the things which had n't been done during the symposium itself . |
| 11 | Had n't been bothering with them for a while , now . |
| 12 | The women of America responded beyond his wildest dreams , but they may not have been quite so eager to help out if he had n't been blessed with such an abundance of sex appeal . |
| 13 | ( In fact Boy had n't been hit in the face by O. As I said , that white skin marked easily , and Boy 's eyes were in fact just bruised with fatigue , with six sleepless nights in a row . |
| 14 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 15 | ‘ He had n't been beaten for a long time , and was very confident so I think defeat came as a bit of a shock . |
| 16 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 17 | One thing for sure : Tzani-bey had n't been asked to the Feast of St Nicholas , although the Arab physician was here . |
| 18 | At school next day , even the girls who had n't been asked to the party wished her a happy birthday . |
| 19 | Next it was Ethel to make difficulties , because she had n't been asked to be a bridesmaid . |
| 20 | The man had n't been stopped before and I was n't about to try it on . |
| 21 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 22 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 23 | I was logging the cache petrol bombs which had n't been inspected for evaporation recently when the phone went . |
| 24 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 25 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 26 | if arrangements had n't been made for her to go to Australia might be , she has n't been may have you know , she still had n't been to the doctors |
| 27 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 28 | ‘ If the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had n't been crushed in 1920 by the Bolsheviks , it 's not yet clear who would be helping who now . |
| 29 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 30 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |