Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] n't been able " in BNC.
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1 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
2 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
3 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
4 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
5 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
6 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
7 | Does n't it worry you that you have n't been able really to make an efficient crackdown here and your officers are still suffering attacks ? |
8 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
9 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
10 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
11 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |