Example sentences of "[noun] he have [not/n't] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 2 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 3 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 4 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 5 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 6 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 7 | Now , in the confines of The Pub From Hell , Merton , a surprisingly serious chap off-screen who tells me that in the past he 's not been wild about interviews , comes into his own . |
| 8 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 9 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 10 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |