Example sentences of "[pers pn] have n't be [adv] " 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 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
| 3 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 4 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 5 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 6 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 7 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 8 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 9 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 10 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 11 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 12 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 13 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 14 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 15 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
| 16 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 17 | I had n't been back here . |
| 18 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 21 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 22 | I had n't been there long . |
| 23 | What would you be doing at this moment , if I had n't been there ’ |
| 24 | I think , if I had n't been there , she 'd have gone to sleep right away . |
| 25 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |
| 26 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 27 | I had n't been there long enough . |
| 28 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 30 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |