Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 2 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 3 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 4 | He went on to obtain a commission in the Regular Army , which involved sitting the final examination at Sandhurst , although he had not been a cadet . |
| 5 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 6 | Montrose , however , understood that although he had not been consulted and |
| 7 | Joseph , although he had not been invited , followed , keeping low , is Winchester clutched in both hands . |
| 8 | ‘ The Cloak of Invisibility in addition to all else ? ’ said Taliesin lightly , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Exactly , ’ and Taliesin looked up sharply , because although he had not been entirely flippant , neither had he been altogether serious . |
| 9 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 10 | Moldan , whose name was on the StB register although he had not been an agent , admitted to meeting with StB agents but declared that " in the conditions in Czechoslovakia at that time it never crossed by mind that I could refuse " . |
| 11 | Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed . |
| 12 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 13 | It was n't anything that he had n't been told before , particularly by Dr Goode , and yet , it seemed that Ron , at this particular point , was psychologically prepared to hear the information in a way that he had not been before . |
| 14 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 15 | Tom picked him up , secretly delighted that he had n't been deserted in affection . |
| 16 | He needed to feel that he had n't been rejected . |
| 17 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 18 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 19 | He said that he had n't been treated ‘ badly ’ , but had , like Jenco and Jacobsen , been chained by one or both ankles for most of the time . |
| 20 | When the pain lanced into his back , the shock of it made him cry out loud … and he knew that he had n't been dreaming . |
| 21 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 22 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 23 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 24 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 26 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 27 | Eventually a senior official arrived for talks with the police , somewhat annoyed that he had n't been told of the attempt to list the building . |
| 28 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 29 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 30 | He soon found , though , that he had not been eligible to join , having refused to join the top civil servants ' trade union which was then attempting to block a Foreign Office shake-up . |