Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have n't [been] able " in BNC.
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1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
4 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
7 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
8 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |