Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just have n't been able to stop crying . |
| 2 | I just have n't been able to motivate myself to put the time in |
| 3 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 4 | So you still have n't been able to find it ? |
| 5 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 6 | But perhaps they simply had n't been able to check out all the prints they 'd found anyway . |
| 7 | He obviously had n't been willing : maybe she 'd taken offence and attacked him . |
| 8 | No you did n't , you said you wanted it as soon as possible , and so far , I 'm afraid , it just has n't been possible . |
| 9 | No you did n't , you just said you wanted it as soon as possible , and so far I 'm afraid it just has n't been possible . |
| 10 | IMP had paid her generously , and she 'd hoarded the little money she 'd made on her flat once it had been sold , but it still had n't been enough to buy her somewhere to live . |
| 11 | Nine days later he still has n't been able to tell her . |
| 12 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |