Example sentences of "'ve [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know you 've not been interested in sex for years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've not been down there yet , ’ said Nigel , ‘ but we can see from the tower . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 6 | But the books we 've got should be , if they 've not been moved , up on Row V , shelf sixty-nine . |
| 7 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 8 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
| 10 | Other clients who 've not been sure about coming , actually find they quite like it and it 's not that bad and yes , they 'd like to stay ! |
| 11 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 12 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not been well , Win . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Not in our set , at all events — for we 've not been asked to any ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 've not been here long , have you ? ’ he asked after a while . |
| 18 | Learn to relax ( see the range of goods mentioned above to make you calmer ) and make sure you 've not been overtraining . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've not been in the country long . |
| 20 | What if I tell you you 've not been out of my mind since last evening ? ’ |
| 21 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 22 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 23 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 24 | I 've not been in the situation ‘ Little Thing ’ describes , but everyone 's gon na assume I have . |
| 25 | We 've not been let down once since ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ ; danceable with brilliant lyrics , every one . |
| 26 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 27 | He said in a quiet and ominous voice , ‘ You 've not been putting ideas in their heads , I do hope ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | You 've not been yourself lately . |
| 30 | I 've not been bad for a long long time . |