Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 2 | I regret not being able to deal with the subject of community care policy as extensively as its importance deserves , although there is a general discussion in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | That night I tried not being decent , being sharp and bitchy , instead . |
| 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 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 6 | ‘ I like not being able to breathe . ’ |
| 7 | I remember not being able to stand outside a phone kiosk any longer and dragging out a man who was obviously gossiping therein . |
| 8 | I remember not being able to face certain people for months afterwards . |
| 9 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 10 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 11 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 12 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 13 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 14 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 15 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 16 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've not been well , Win . ’ |
| 18 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 20 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 24 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 29 | Yeah unfortunately I 've not been able to have it done yet . |
| 30 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |