Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I have n't been a Hawaiian wedding . |
| 2 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't been an easy man to live with for the past year . |
| 4 | ‘ I have not been the same since the assault , ’ the 20-year-old student said at her flat near Hanover , where she is continuing her biology degree course . |
| 5 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 6 | No you 've not been a good boy ? |
| 7 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 8 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 9 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 10 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 11 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 12 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 13 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 14 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 15 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 16 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 17 | But we have n't been the only ones to combat that , there have been white lesbians as well who have taken offence at that particularly say working class white lesbians or white lesbians with disabilities who have also felt that particular issues affecting them have been marginalised . |
| 18 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 19 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 20 | They have n't been the sole centre of attention — no one is . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I do n't know why but he has n't been the same player since coming back from Wembley . ’ |
| 22 | While Robinson was involved with Paisley and McQuade in the demonstrations against the invitation of Charles Haughey , then the Republic 's Prime Minister , to the enthronement of the Church of Ireland Primate in Armagh in May 1980 , he has not been a conspicuous street demonstrator . |
| 23 | Arsenal boss George Graham feels he has not been the same player since he co-starred for England against Turkey . |
| 24 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 25 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 26 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 27 | It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards . |
| 28 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 29 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 30 | It has not been an easy ride , however . |