Example sentences of "they have n't [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three quarters said they had n't been consulted before a caution was given , and sixty two percent of our sample thought offenders should only be entitled to one caution no matter whether the crime was committed by an adult or juvenile . |
| 2 | They had n't been hunting it . |
| 3 | But they had n't been born then . ’ |
| 4 | They had n't been to see him today . |
| 5 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 6 | I saw the hoses last week , they had n't been drained , they 're frozen solid in their coils . ’ |
| 7 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 8 | You might have company , " Patrick panted. he knew that they had n't been followed , but he also knew that as soon as his mother discovered that he — that both of them — had gone , the first place she would head for would be Joe Hyde 's flat . |
| 9 | They had n't been seen . |
| 10 | A survey last year showed that a frightening proportion of child car seats would not do their job properly as they had n't been fitted correctly . |
| 11 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 12 | Maybe they had n't been secured anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 14 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 15 | She had tried to get out of the car when he was driving and he considered it lucky that they had n't been killed , but as he and I were together more I came to admire her resolution and good sense . |
| 16 | They had n't been to visit Baby in hospital either . |
| 17 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 18 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 19 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 21 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 22 | It was amazing they had n't been invaded by detectives and policemen already . |
| 23 | On television last night there was some waffling about nothing and complaining they had n't been told . |
| 24 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 25 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 26 | The other day , they 're dirty , they had n't been washed they 're dirty when you look at them in daylight . |
| 27 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 28 | She says that if they had n't been woken they would both be dead . |
| 29 | It was a wonder they had n't been buried under it , and their injuries correspondingly worse . |
| 30 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |