Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
| 2 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 3 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 4 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 5 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 7 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 8 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 9 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 10 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |
| 11 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 12 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 13 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 14 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 15 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 16 | and I have not been rebellious … |
| 17 | and I have not been rebellious ; |
| 18 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 19 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 20 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 21 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 22 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 23 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 24 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 25 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 26 | If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said . |
| 27 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 28 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 29 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 30 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |