Example sentences of "[verb] n't [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’ |
| 2 | That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since ! |
| 3 | ‘ The good news , ’ went on Luke , ‘ is that , because she 's around , Juan has n't been able to have his extra-marital pre-match hump , which miraculously lifts his game . |
| 4 | Nine days later he still has n't been able to tell her . |
| 5 | There 's still one thing our technology has n't been able to improve upon though . |
| 6 | Cockney ruffian culture has n't been able to progress on the swaggering menace , social quirks , pithy observation and deranged vignettes detailed in the impressive collection of tunes played out here under the giant M erected in Finsbury Park . |
| 7 | Unfortunately Miss has n't been able to conclude her enquiries er , to apportion the damage and to take instructions as to the the residue of what I 've just said . |
| 8 | Unfortunately Miss has n't been able to conclude her enquiries er to apportion the damage and to take instructions as to the veracity of what I have just said . |
| 9 | Mossad is different , but it 's fair to assume that if it has n't been able to put someone into Iraq to kill Saddam , then it 's next to impossible to do so . |
| 10 | " It could just be he has n't been able to catch anyone . " |
| 11 | But so far , because of the other pressures that are on us , that just has n't been able to be followed |
| 12 | So social science has tended to ignore Freud 's books , but of course , it has n't been able to forget about Freud . |
| 13 | He has n't been able to contact the list since , so we 're not sure what became of him . |
| 14 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 15 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 16 | Hilda Jones , has n't been able to give much information about her attacker . |
| 17 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 18 | He has n't been able to tell his family much about the shooting . |
| 19 | They 're angry the motor racing team has n't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back . |
| 20 | The problem 's arisen because surface water has n't been able to drain away . |
| 21 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | well yeah , he has n't been able |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 26 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Giles rang up , ’ his daughter volunteered , and he was uncomfortably reminded by something in her voice that Giles Hawick was one of the men Jennifer had n't been able to hang on to — or not once he had seen Angela . |
| 28 | His Mum had n't been able to persuade him to stay , though she was worried about his cough . |
| 29 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 30 | He had n't been able to keep the irritation out of his voice . |