Example sentences of "you [verb] n't be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that was why you had n't been round cos I never come |
| 2 | If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle . |
| 3 | Then : ‘ What if you had n't been here ? ’ |
| 4 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 5 | You could have made it too , if you had n't been so stupid . ’ |
| 6 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't been so awkward about it I doubt if that constable would even have taken my name and address . |
| 8 | ‘ If you had n't been so nasty , ’ she went on , ignoring his cold rebuttal , ‘ I 'd probably have gathered everything up . |
| 9 | If you had n't been so boring in the pub I would n't have left in such a temper ! ’ |
| 10 | I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? " |
| 11 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had n't been out there , if you had n't shouted at me I 'd never have fallen in . ’ |
| 13 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 14 | And what 's more , Biddy would have liked me if you had n't been there . |
| 15 | And you could also feel the , the shuddering of the , the wings and the fuselage er and er it was rather frightful you know , if you had n't been before . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if you had n't been way out there , you had no right to make something from my personal life the grounds for dismissal . ’ |
| 17 | " I see that you have n't been properly introduced , " he said , " and that must be put right at once . |
| 18 | Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come . |
| 19 | No , you landed on it but you have n't been round once . |
| 20 | You have n't been round once yet . |
| 21 | You have n't been round yet . |
| 22 | You have n't been round once yet ! |
| 23 | Oh you have n't been round ! |
| 24 | No you ca n't , cos you have n't been round |
| 25 | You have n't been round yet |
| 26 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 27 | If you have n't been yet make sure you do n't leave it too late . |
| 28 | When , when I see he come back I thought never , he ai n't been up Kingswood already , but you have n't been up Kingswood . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course you would n't understand that because you have n't been here long enough . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |