Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been " 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 I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to .
5 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 .
6 ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time .
7 Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’
8 ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire .
9 I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 Perhaps I had n't been shot .
13 ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten .
14 I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out .
15 If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me .
16 If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’
17 I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’
18 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 .
19 I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey .
20 If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’
24 ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’
25 I had n't been on a ferry for years .
26 More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil .
27 I had n't been able to do that for so long . ’
28 I had n't been in bed all that long .
29 Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before .
30 It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city .
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