Example sentences of "[verb] n't been able do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 2 | I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’ |
| 3 | Even Father Barnes 's predecessor , Father Kendrick , had n't been able to do much with St Matthew 's Vicarage . |
| 4 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 5 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |
| 6 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 7 | Most important was losing inches off my hips , which I have n't been able to do before … . ‘ |
| 8 | Saga have n't been able to do much with the abrasive 1954 recording quality , though by comparison with the LP some of the aural grit has disappeared . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't been able to do too much so far . |
| 10 | There 's only biscuits , I have n't been able to do any baking . |
| 11 | Gets you , the reason why helicopters have n't been able to do loop the loop unless they 've got a lot of height , is because , obviously it pulls you up |
| 12 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |