Example sentences of "n't be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't been worn have they ? |
| 2 | I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry Councillor , but you obviously have n't been listening to debate this morning , the issue is about the settlement that we have received . |
| 3 | Cobalt said irritably : ‘ I have n't been aiming to get you killed and I have n't discussed with anyone what you 've found out . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He spends all day in his room and has n't been heard to say a word to anyone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm because he would like to make a comment on the exceptions policy , he has n't been invited to participate tomorrow , er I have exercised some latitude and said yes I will be happy to hear what he has to say , erm there is a prescribed time limit of which he is aware . |
| 7 | The plant opened just three years ago and Conner has n't been asked to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 8 | She 'd always had boyfriends , although so far she had n't been tempted to engage in any serious commitment . |
| 9 | Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife . |
| 10 | I parked the van in one of the perimeter car parks and walked through the campus buildings reading the graffiti until I saw the amended sign reading Stundent Onion , and one which had n't been vandalized saying simply Bar . |
| 11 | I scowled at her and promised Dad that if the Germans had n't been sent packing by Christmas — I would leave the market and join up myself to help him finish off the job . |
| 12 | She had n't been seen leaving the building . |
| 13 | It has n't been done has it ? |
| 14 | I 'm surprised you have n't been approached to give your support . ’ |
| 15 | The move is seen as a spur to get IBM working on the case rather than a serious threat : rivals say they have n't been approached to propose alternatives . |
| 16 | I had n't been planning to come to England , but I wanted to meet you . |
| 17 | For the first time in weeks the thought of her broken engagement had n't been lurking to ambush her . |
| 18 | The bigger the display the larger the amount of memory required for graphics but , paradoxically , the smaller text will appear if the software has n't been designed to cope . |
| 19 | You have n't been you have n't been brought to speak |
| 20 | Peter had n't been expected to work in the men 's outfitters , never had and never would . |
| 21 | ‘ He has n't been known to use any other kind of violence . |
| 22 | Come the next time that sector is needed — assuming it has n't been discarded to make way for more recent data — it 's pulled straight out of RAM rather than through the comparatively slow disk system . |
| 23 | You have n't been told to start yet , see you in a minute all right ? |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't been allowed to move . |
| 25 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 26 | She had n't been allowed to bring anything off the boat except her patchwork leather shoulder-bag which had been thoroughly searched first . |
| 27 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 28 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 29 | Of course he had n't been going to fill the bloody canal in ! |
| 30 | She had n't been going to say it . |