Example sentences of "they [verb] n't been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 2 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 3 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 4 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 5 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 6 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 7 | 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 . |