Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have n't [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 4 | But I have n't been able |
| 5 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 6 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 7 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 8 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 10 | Many feminists have become uncomfortable with this idea , but we have n't been able to find any other argument that did n't immediately pose a threat to our basic position that women must control their own bodies . |
| 11 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 12 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 13 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 14 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |
| 15 | no , but he has n't been able to because he has to come round but he 's all ra ra ra ra , whistle whistle whistle . |