Example sentences of "i [vb base] n't been [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
2 | I have n't been since , what is n't it ? |
3 | You know , I have n't been consciously stru , striving to change my accent . |
4 | Er , as you know , I have n't been exactly an enthusiastic supporter of neighbourhood erm areas , but I have to confess |
5 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
6 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
7 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
8 | ‘ I have n't been here very long . |
9 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
10 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
11 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
12 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
13 | Well I have n't been here to have chips Richard |
14 | ‘ I have n't been up top for some time , ’ he said . |
15 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
16 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
17 | ‘ I have n't been up here in years . |
18 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
19 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
20 | I do n't know I have n't been up for years . |
21 | I got the woman who comes in to clean the hall and stairs to go up and wash off the floors but I have n't been up there myself since the fuzz left . |
22 | I have n't been up here many minutes quarter to twenty to five now . |
23 | I have n't been up there since I got in from school |
24 | I have n't been up there . |
25 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
26 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
27 | I have n't been up to buy meat |
28 | But I have n't been up to cla Clarendon Road for some time now . |
29 | I have n't been round much this week . ’ |
30 | Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come . |