Example sentences of "[pron] have n't [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes I wish I had n't been born a Catholic , Joe . |
| 2 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
| 5 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 8 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 9 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 16 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 22 | Starts with you know , I have n't been invited why I 'm and if you 've got a big family , you really have to do it properly and it , it 's gon na cost ! |
| 23 | I have n't been invited to a seminar . |
| 24 | I have n't been involved as far as the self-appraisal is concerned . |
| 25 | I wait a minute ; no traffic passes , so I guess I have n't been seen . |
| 26 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I ju I jus I have n't been asked to . |
| 29 | ‘ This time I told them I was available but , quite frankly , I have n't been asked , ’ he says . |
| 30 | But how can I be a ghost when I have n't been born yet ? |