Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 32 | If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet . |
| 33 | Similarly , if you had n't been lucky in the market , one lucky bet could send you home the richer by a season 's takings , if you could spot an outsider . |
| 34 | She said I 'm I 'm just ringing to tell you Joy that you did n't get you you have n't been successful with your application this time . |
| 35 | I think , because maybe you have n't been flexible at the outset , and all you 've ended up doing is scoring points off each other , |
| 36 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 37 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 40 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 41 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 42 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 43 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 44 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 45 | And they have n't been able to totally accept what 's wrong with Mum , you know , that some of her behavioural problems are n't her being vindictive . |
| 46 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 49 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 50 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 51 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 52 | You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison . |
| 53 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 54 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 55 | It had n't been easy at first ; he was n't her father and all she remembered of her own father was blows and shouting . |
| 56 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 57 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 58 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 59 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 60 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |