Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [verb] n't been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 2 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 3 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 4 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 5 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 6 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 7 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 8 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 9 | That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ? |
| 10 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 11 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 12 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 13 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 14 | Is the little dark-eyed doe implying that she has n't been haunted , since the moment of their first encounter , with images of our fascinating , leather-jacketed heroine ? |
| 15 | over taking you know cutting right in front of you and er , you just , I see things in front of me and I can hardly believe that there has n't been a horrible accident , you know , just seeing the things that happening on the road . |
| 16 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 17 | We 've been told that it has n't been trialed because it was produced in a hurry . |
| 18 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 19 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 20 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 21 | ‘ And for all we know Ma might realise that she has n't been to see her . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the pain lanced into his back , the shock of it made him cry out loud … and he knew that he had n't been dreaming . |
| 24 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 25 | It it means that they have n't been doing their duty in the winter then . |
| 26 | It irritated her to think that she had n't been doing anything reckless like running to catch a bus ; but she had a private theory that an old person did n't break a hip because she fell , but fell because her hip snapped , after gradual erosion . |
| 27 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 28 | Well last time we saw her , she said that she had n't been I think she went in her bedroom now , or in the toilet . . |
| 29 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 30 | He said that he had n't been treated ‘ badly ’ , but had , like Jenco and Jacobsen , been chained by one or both ankles for most of the time . |