Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 2 | I have n't been long back . |
| 3 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 4 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 5 | Eh , I have n't been this week . |
| 6 | She had not been that way before . |
| 7 | If you had n't been next door here , you 'd never have known . " |
| 8 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 9 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 10 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 11 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year . |
| 13 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 14 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 15 | It 's not been much fun so far , ’ she said mournfully . |