Example sentences of "[pers pn] have n't [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she said she was gon na ring me back , but you see I have n't been here this afternoon so I 'll perhaps ring again tomorrow . |
| 2 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 3 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 4 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 5 | I have n't been so much involved in it as perhaps some other people and I do n't pretend to be an expert . |
| 6 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 7 | And we have n't been out this week either |
| 8 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 9 | " He has n't been home all night , " I said , trying to keep the anxiety out of my voice . |
| 10 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 11 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 12 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |