Example sentences of "he [verb] n't been [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 Besides , if he had n't been selfish , hard , ambitious , he would n't be where he is . ’
22 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 .
23 But he had n't been nude .
24 He had n't been dead for very long — my earlier estimate of around six hours will be somewhere near the mark .
25 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 .
26 She had been married before , of course , and he had n't been surprised to find out .
27 He had n't been surprised ) .
28 He had n't been able to keep the irritation out of his voice .
29 He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia .
30 For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again .
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