Example sentences of "[pron] 've not [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 2 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 3 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 4 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 5 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 6 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 7 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 8 | Yeah unfortunately I 've not been able to have it done yet . |
| 9 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 10 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 11 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 12 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 13 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 14 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 15 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 16 | The general member auditors , er , I 'm told that they , they look after the money they 've not been able to find themselves seats I understand this morning , so hopefully everything 's in order but somewhere around Eric George and Arthur are they around ? |
| 17 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |