Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 4 | But I have n't been able |
| 5 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 6 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 7 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 8 | But she has n't been well . |
| 9 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 10 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 12 | Many feminists have become uncomfortable with this idea , but we have n't been able to find any other argument that did n't immediately pose a threat to our basic position that women must control their own bodies . |
| 13 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 14 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 15 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 16 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 17 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 18 | We 'll take any signals from the UK Government but there have n't been any so far |
| 19 | But there has n't been much call |
| 20 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 21 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 22 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 23 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 24 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 25 | But he has n't been right |
| 26 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |
| 29 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 30 | But it has n't been easy to organise . |