Example sentences of "he [verb] n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't been specific yet . |
| 2 | But he has n't been right |
| 3 | I 'm pretty certain he has n't been married . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You know he has n't been unfaithful . ’ |
| 5 | he has n't been sick |
| 6 | Yeah but he ha , maybe he has n't been dead that long has he ? |
| 7 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 8 | That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since ! |
| 9 | " It could just be he has n't been able to catch anyone . " |
| 10 | He has n't been able to contact the list since , so we 're not sure what became of him . |
| 11 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 12 | He has n't been able to tell his family much about the shooting . |
| 13 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |
| 14 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 15 | well yeah , he has n't been able |
| 16 | no , but he has n't been able to because he has to come round but he 's all ra ra ra ra , whistle whistle whistle . |
| 17 | So far he has n't been wrong ! |
| 18 | He has n't been humble , he has n't grovelled , he is deemed to be arrogant — if he is , it 's probably that inner confidence which has brought him through his ordeal with such sanity and poise . |
| 19 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 20 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 21 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 22 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 23 | If he had n't been such a lousy husband I might not have got myself in so deep … ’ |
| 24 | Besides , if he had n't been selfish , hard , ambitious , he would n't be where he is . ’ |
| 25 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 26 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 27 | He had n't been dead for very long — my earlier estimate of around six hours will be somewhere near the mark . |
| 28 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 29 | She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out . |
| 30 | He had n't been surprised ) . |