Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 2 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 3 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 4 | N ) How many have not been to either of these places ? |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |