Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I have not been trying hard enough . |
| 3 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 4 | and we 'll catch it early and so I have n't been , sort of , saying to myself ooh I 've lost some weight , I 'll try to lose more at the moment I 'm not worrying too much about what I eat |
| 5 | So I have n't been to any of those coffee mornings I 've met a few people from it . |
| 6 | So I have n't been to the shop yet . |
| 7 | Arriving , she saw that the front door was still open : perhaps she had not been gone long , perhaps they had not yet missed her . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you have n't been given the opportunity for sufficient consideration . |
| 10 | The girl was standing near the back door , obviously she had not been invited inside . |
| 11 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 12 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 13 | So we have n't been playing long |
| 14 | Perhaps there had n't been anyone there , after all . |
| 15 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 16 | So there has not been the same emphasis on ease of use . |
| 17 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 18 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 19 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 20 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 21 | He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … . |
| 22 | Constitutionally it had not been thought through . |
| 23 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 25 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had n't been — until this moment . |
| 27 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 28 | Obviously it had n't been planted by Marshall ; the weed was the remains of a previous year 's crop . |
| 29 | I mean , I du n no , obviously it had n't been done , or maybe Angie undid it too much or whatever . |
| 30 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |