Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] [not/n't] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not strong enough and they have n't been trained . ’ |
| 2 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 3 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 4 | You know what 'll happen if I come home and it 's not been done ! |
| 5 | And when things have turned up and they 've not been quite right he 's known |
| 6 | He had n't come out and she had n't been allowed in . |
| 7 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's a different story this time around and he has n't been doing the business for us . |
| 9 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 10 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 11 | It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe . |
| 12 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |