Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 2 | There were libraries in the lighthouses at Portnahaven , Rhuvaal and probably McArthur 's Head but I have not been able to find out what happened to them . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 4 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 6 | But I have n't been able |
| 7 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 10 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 11 | But she has n't been well . |
| 12 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union and China are not impossible , but we have not been successful there before . |
| 14 | Mr Binstead , who says he has investigated many similar offers , none of which have produced loans , said : ‘ We are making inquiries , but we have not been able to establish whether these offers are going to come through . ’ |
| 15 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 16 | But we have not been able to discover any contact they had in common . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 23 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 24 | There have been some changes , but they have not been dramatic . |
| 25 | Greater resources are needed to meet these obligations but they have not been forthcoming . |
| 26 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 27 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |
| 28 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 29 | He had wanted to wrap his arms about his body for warmth , but he had not been able to move , and his vision had been blurred . |
| 30 | But he had not been able to show anyone , yet , that he was anything but what his father now was : a rich man who did what he liked because he was King and everyone was polite to him . |