Example sentences of "he have n't be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 2 | He has , he has n't been very active actually |
| 3 | " He has n't been home all night , " I said , trying to keep the anxiety out of my voice . |
| 4 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 5 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 6 | He had n't been seriously doubtful . |
| 7 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 8 | Wished he had n't been so damn scared that she 'd turn him down . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 10 | If he had n't been so hasty in consoling himself with Lexy , she would have rushed ahead with her usual blind enthusiasm , forgetting all the lessons her broken engagement had taught her . |
| 11 | There was love in that sofa , I said to George , love for which the Morrisons would have paid a fortune if he had n't been so prissy . |
| 12 | He had n't been too well lately they said . |
| 13 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 14 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |
| 15 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 16 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |