Example sentences of "n't be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 2 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 3 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 4 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 5 | certain things which have n't been audited at all , |
| 6 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |
| 7 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 8 | Joe had called her some names , and had n't been reassured at all . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 11 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 12 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 14 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 15 | But clearly they have n't been consulted on preferred locations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 18 | No , she had n't been born like that . |
| 19 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ If the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had n't been crushed in 1920 by the Bolsheviks , it 's not yet clear who would be helping who now . |
| 22 | The women of America responded beyond his wildest dreams , but they may not have been quite so eager to help out if he had n't been blessed with such an abundance of sex appeal . |
| 23 | Another fine prospect is Adrian Davies , the Cambridge University captain , but he has n't been blessed with much luck recently and I hope his experiences in Australia , when some of his team-mates threw in the towel , will not have destroyed his confidence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 26 | Some of the work the Aborigines have produced is quite beautiful , especially where it has n't been corrupted by commercial interests . ’ |
| 27 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 28 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 29 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 30 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |