Example sentences of "and [pron] have n't be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since .
2 Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? "
3 I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know .
4 You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything .
5 you 've been overtired and you have n't been able to get to sleep very well .
6 Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together .
7 ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’
8 He says if it was Satanic there would be signs of a ritual and there have n't been any .
9 And they have n't been able to totally accept what 's wrong with Mum , you know , that some of her behavioural problems are n't her being vindictive .
10 on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time .
11 Apparently the , he said they 've had one of them up in court twenty seven times and they have n't been able to prove it yet
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