Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 2 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 3 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 4 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 5 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I ca n't I have n't been bloody , yeah you have now , I 've still got ta get to there yet before I can bloody buy anything |
| 8 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 9 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
| 10 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 11 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 14 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 16 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 17 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 19 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
| 20 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 21 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 22 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 23 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 24 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 25 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 26 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 27 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 28 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’ |
| 30 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |