Example sentences of "[pron] 've [not/n't] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 2 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 4 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 5 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've not been well , Win . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've not been in the country long . |
| 10 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 11 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 13 | I 've not been in the situation ‘ Little Thing ’ describes , but everyone 's gon na assume I have . |
| 14 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 15 | I 've not been bad for a long long time . |
| 16 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 17 | I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures . |
| 18 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 19 | No I 've not been at my work this |
| 20 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 21 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 22 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 23 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 24 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 25 | I 've not been but they say there are . |
| 26 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 27 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 28 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 29 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 30 | I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now . |