Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 2 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 3 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 4 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 5 | But we have n't been the only ones to combat that , there have been white lesbians as well who have taken offence at that particularly say working class white lesbians or white lesbians with disabilities who have also felt that particular issues affecting them have been marginalised . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 7 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 8 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 9 | They have n't been the sole centre of attention — no one is . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I do n't know why but he has n't been the same player since coming back from Wembley . ’ |
| 11 | Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’ |
| 12 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 13 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |