Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't be " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 |
3 | 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 . |
4 | because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look |
5 | I did n't tell you what Emma thought because I do n't is that a blank page ? |
6 | I do n't was is about school ? |
7 | Is that maybe the other side , but I do n't be Wendy 's side . |
8 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
9 | Yes I am but I do n't being as far away as I am |
10 | Jane : No I did n't is certainly confrontational but it 's of little interest dramatically . |
11 | Oh I did n't is want Chip and Dale on |
12 | I did n't be sick . |
13 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
14 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
17 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
18 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
19 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
20 | ‘ 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
23 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
24 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
25 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
26 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
27 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
30 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |