Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even been alarmed . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't really been involved with rugby since 1984 when I retired at Bath but I was delighted when Blaina contacted me ’ , he commented . |
| 3 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 4 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 5 | Sometimes on the morning after a match I have n't even been able to put my socks on because of painful ankles , ’ the 34-year-old said last night . |
| 6 | And I have n't even been able to help you regain your notes . ’ |
| 7 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 8 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 9 | She had n't even been aware that the show had a programme , other than the stuff they put on the show board in the foyer . |
| 10 | She had n't even been aware of gnawing on her abused lip . |
| 11 | Something was wrong , but she had n't quite been able to put her finger on it . |
| 12 | I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully . |
| 13 | " We have n't exactly been sweeping swooning suitors off the doorstep , though , have we ? |
| 14 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 15 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 16 | But then again there have n't really been any bands that have said what they felt in a long time . ’ |
| 17 | Erm I I 've done a lot of listening this evening er and I 'm sure you have too from from the way in which the the rest of the board have been responding er with there eyes and ears even if they have n't always been open . |
| 18 | They have n't always been National Anthems , it 's a relatively new thing , erm , I 've mentioned Elizabethan times , about four hundred years ago . |
| 19 | Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 20 | His vehicle was erm something that he did use for work but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er replace it and so he 's having to be erm er chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 21 | The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen . |
| 22 | WHILE BRYAN AND KEITH are now enjoying the fruits of success , it has n't always been easy . |
| 23 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 24 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 25 | It had n't always been that way . |
| 26 | He had n't even been jealous of her dead husband . |
| 27 | A pot of coffee was spilled , and Sara had to get a damp cloth for the trousers of one of the visitors , who was involved in an unwise pretense that he had n't actually been asleep . |
| 28 | An experienced Substitute Prosecutor who would stand by him if things got tricky … and he had n't always been lucky . |