Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 2 | He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … . |
| 3 | Perhaps he had n't been — until this moment . |
| 4 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 5 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 6 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 7 | so he had n't been working , earning money , he knocked a hole in the dining room from the lounge wall yesterday |
| 8 | Nevertheless he has not been slow to seize on the results of such paperwork and the publication of tables , which have shown Edinburgh 's research ranks in the top four British universities . |
| 9 | Philip was being obliging , feeling that yesterday he had not been . |
| 10 | He said yesterday he had not been approached about the acquisition . |
| 11 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 12 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 13 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 14 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 15 | Indeed , so far he had not been able to discover any previous relationship at all between Zoser and the Zikr . |
| 16 | So far he has n't been wrong ! |
| 17 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 18 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly he had not been happy as a Wesleyan . |
| 20 | Surely he had n't been quite so irritating as a watchkeeping officer in the Lanark ? |
| 21 | Oh , surely he had n't been going to say he had asked her twin to marry him ? |
| 22 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 23 | Yeah but he ha , maybe he has n't been dead that long has he ? |
| 24 | Yet he had n't been told this highly relevant fact . |
| 25 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 26 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |