Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 2 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 3 | He was n't being fair and he had n't been fair a year ago . |
| 4 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 5 | She had already suggested this to Ben , and he had n't been co-operative . |
| 6 | That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since ! |
| 7 | Besides , if he had n't been selfish , hard , ambitious , he would n't be where he is . ’ |
| 8 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 9 | If he had n't been such a lousy husband I might not have got myself in so deep … ’ |
| 10 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 11 | When that happened it meant he was drunk , sprawled out on the sofa if he had n't been able to reach the bed . |
| 12 | If he had n't been able to , it does n't bear thinking about . ’ |
| 13 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 14 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 15 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 16 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 17 | But he has n't been right |
| 18 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |
| 19 | no , but he has n't been able to because he has to come round but he 's all ra ra ra ra , whistle whistle whistle . |
| 20 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 21 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |