Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 2 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 3 | He brings to football a dimension which has n't been present since the days of the great wingers . |
| 4 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 5 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 6 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 7 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 8 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 9 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 10 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 11 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 12 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 13 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 14 | The other time , he remembered , it was his father who had n't been able to eat . |
| 15 | And yet , gradually the reputation has gone down , it 's become an area in which erm basically people who have n't been able to get housing . |
| 16 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 17 | The Macari honeymoon period is in full swing and there 's a determination and self-belief about the players which has n't been visible for some time . |
| 18 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 19 | ‘ Now that 's one mystery I have n't been able to solve . |
| 20 | Fabia returned to her room admitting today — where for some unknown reason she had n't been able to admit yesterday — that yes , she was attracted by him , and yes , she did feel drawn to him . |
| 21 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 22 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |
| 23 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 24 | Actually it has , though whether by enough to require a bigger bag I have n't been able to make out . ’ |
| 25 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |