Example sentences of "i have [not/n't] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 2 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 3 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 4 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 5 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 6 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 7 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 8 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 9 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 10 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 11 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 12 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 13 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 14 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 15 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 16 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 17 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 18 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 19 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 20 | I have n't been invited to a seminar . |
| 21 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 22 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 24 | I ju I jus I have n't been asked to . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 26 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But Gary — I have n't been spying for you ! |
| 28 | What I do n't need is a love affair with a woman who 's on the run from her past , her husband and God knows what else I have n't been told about yet . |
| 29 | it says I have n't been put on the list . |
| 30 | No , what she said about , about what she says there 's me , I have n't been talking about her , do n't tell her this . |