Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] n't been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember that it is not the spelling of individual words that you are trying to teach , but the basic spelling patterns , so that pupils can spell correctly words they have n't been taught but want to write . |
| 2 | It was a wonder they had n't been buried under it , and their injuries correspondingly worse . |
| 3 | I mean we 've got to see it 's a wonder they have n't been on to us cos they 've stopped the er |
| 4 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 5 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 6 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 7 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |
| 8 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |