Example sentences of "not been well " in BNC.

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1 ‘ — and I 've not been well .
2 But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air .
3 Father must be in his sixties now , and had not been well this winter .
4 ‘ I 've not been well , Win . ’
5 ‘ Rab has not been well , ’ she said .
6 ‘ I 'm sorry your baby 's not been well . ’
7 No wonder her father had not been well these last few weeks , he was worried about money .
8 He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … .
9 Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon .
10 His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely .
11 ‘ As you know , father has not been well and Hattie is not the most reliable of attendants .
12 ‘ Alice is a lazy slug and Gran 's not been well .
13 On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial .
14 Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’
15 Mr Lineker 's lad 's not been well , and being something of a soccer fan I wanted to do my bit
16 ‘ She has not been well and I do n't mind admitting now that we were very worried , ’ he said .
17 Have you not been well Jo ?
18 still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious
19 And erm , so of course , she 's , you know , not been well for a couple of weeks and she 's gone down from nine four , to seven stone .
20 Then your then your feelings perhaps do n't matter in the overall picture of the education , but bearing in , looking at the teachers in our school , we , we really do n't have a weak teacher except perhaps Mr , who 's obviously not been well these last three years , erm
21 er , was that because you 've not been well this week or just is it a , ro routine replacement or something ?
22 Yes , but I , it 's not because you 've not been well ?
23 Oh she probably heard that I had not been well
24 Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days .
25 ‘ Angela 's taking a few days off — she has n't been well , ’ he said , easily .
26 ‘ Richard has n't been well , ’ I said , ‘ I 'd rather let him sleep .
27 If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’
28 But she has n't been well .
29 On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing .
30 ‘ I have n't been well , ’ she stuttered .
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