Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 2 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 3 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 4 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 5 | There were libraries in the lighthouses at Portnahaven , Rhuvaal and probably McArthur 's Head but I have not been able to find out what happened to them . |
| 6 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 10 | Well we are a bit of a lively bunch but I have n't been banned yet … touch wood ! |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 12 | Yes I am at the moment , I , I 'm the highest earner at the moment and I 'm on the highest grade but I have n't been there the longest . |
| 13 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 14 | Yes , but I have n't been to work today . |
| 15 | But I have n't been able |
| 16 | But I have n't been up to cla Clarendon Road for some time now . |
| 17 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 18 | Finally , there are other potentially important ways in which the polar ozone destruction mechanism may be perturbed in future but which have not been considered here . |
| 19 | There will be broad scholarly interest simply in seeing the whole thing together and in reuniting certain pairs or groups of paintings which were conceived together but which have not been seen together in the past . |
| 20 | They may stem from either non-financial objectives or factors which might be quantified in money terms , but which have not been quantified , because there is insufficient information to make reliable estimates . |
| 21 | This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration . |
| 22 | There are some changes which one might have expected , but which have not been introduced . |
| 23 | I think particularly of consultation on change , which must take place under the social charter but which has not been observed . |
| 24 | I know but you 've not been thinking of me . |
| 25 | ‘ She said your name was Juliet , but you had n't been registered yet . |
| 26 | When , when I see he come back I thought never , he ai n't been up Kingswood already , but you have n't been up Kingswood . |
| 27 | No , you landed on it but you have n't been round once . |
| 28 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 29 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 30 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |