Example sentences of "she have n't been a " in BNC.

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1 She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine .
2 " 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 .
3 But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) .
4 If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’
5 She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment .
6 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'
7 She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’
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