Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 2 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 3 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 4 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 5 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 6 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 7 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 8 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 9 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 10 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 11 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 12 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 13 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 14 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 15 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 16 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 17 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 18 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 19 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |
| 20 | ‘ She went through a lot that I have n't been through . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just that I have n't been |
| 25 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 26 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 27 | That she had n't been taken in , was what he had said ! |
| 28 | It irritated her to think that she had n't been doing anything reckless like running to catch a bus ; but she had a private theory that an old person did n't break a hip because she fell , but fell because her hip snapped , after gradual erosion . |
| 29 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 30 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |