Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 2 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 3 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 4 | But he could n't possibly have been in love with her ! ’ |
| 5 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 6 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 7 | It could n't really have been like that . |