Example sentences of "[pers pn] have n't be [adv] [adj] " 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 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 3 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 4 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 7 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 8 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 9 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 10 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 11 | I can build a I 've only been there , I have n't been there three years . |
| 12 | And er it was probably where the drovers came through , it 's a drove road and I , I have n't been quite able to find out what he di I think he would be a shepherd probably . |
| 13 | I 've seen the laws in action and I have n't been too impressed . |
| 14 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 15 | It reminded Franca of some old happiness ; and she thought I have n't been really happy since that very first day when he said there was someone else but I was n't to worry . |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't been entirely honest with you , Inspector . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't been entirely honest . ’ |
| 18 | " So I have n't been absolutely truthful with him . |
| 19 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
| 22 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 23 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 24 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 25 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 26 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 27 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 28 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 29 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 30 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |