Example sentences of "have n't be " in BNC.

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1 I have n't been doing much baking lately . ’
2 ‘ I have n't been sleeping well , lately . ’
3 We have n't been able to locate anyone who makes exactly that bird house ( it may even have been especially made ) .
4 I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars .
5 ‘ No , ’ said Lucy , ‘ I have n't been fair to you .
6 Thirdly , the coach is in the business of picking winners , not his friends , so if you have n't been selected , you have to admit to yourself that perhaps you did n't deserve to be .
7 I have n't been in the least difficult about your doing all that sewing .
8 ‘ Amanda , I have n't been sleeping well . ’
9 Here , you have n't been drinking . ’
10 I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway .
11 ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate .
12 ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do .
13 One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time .
14 Surely the old Frenchman and his family have n't been killed !
15 ‘ They have n't been in touch with me since so I 'm wondering what they 're going to do about it , ’ said Stuart .
16 I have n't been to an organized campsite for perhaps fifteen years , so all this is new to me .
17 ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end .
18 ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets .
19 ‘ You have n't been waiting here since school ended , have you ?
20 ‘ They have n't been restored or retouched .
21 ‘ Mr O'Shea , ’ she said sternly , ‘ you have n't been doing your exercises properly . ’
22 ‘ You have n't been that long away . ’
23 I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’
24 ‘ We have n't been able yet to speak to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , ’ he observed .
25 Bumper stickers proclaim ‘ Honk if you have n't been indicted ’ .
26 For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other .
27 ‘ Do you think I have n't been over every inch of that argument a million times ?
28 It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe .
29 ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days .
30 Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work .
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