Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing .
2 The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards .
3 Those of you who did n't are guilty of not reading the questions properly .
4 ‘ What did you do that for ? ’ said Bravd , who had n't been close enough to hear the words .
5 Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days .
6 The other time , he remembered , it was his father who had n't been able to eat .
7 If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either .
8 There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site .
9 And yet , gradually the reputation has gone down , it 's become an area in which erm basically people who have n't been able to get housing .
10 They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need .
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